Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on Philadelphia’s ...

The video discusses the emergence of an American identity through literature during the 18th-century Revolutionary period. It highlights the growth of colonial communities, the role of printing in ...

Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ...

Though perhaps better known for its newspapers and almanacs, Benjamin Franklin’s printing business also churned out paper money to support the colonial economy. Now, scientists are confirming some of ...

MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. Interest in America’s revolutionary era ebbs and flows. It’s flowing again, dramatized in Hollywood, on television and in books. Its major players, the ...

Of all the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is probably by far the most entrepreneurial. Because of the breadth and depth of his interests, his rise to wealth and influence, and his iconic status ...

Carla J. Mulford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Benjamin Franklin had an exceptionally close bond with his son—until the American Revolution pitted them against each other. Benjamin Franklin and his son William demonstrate the electrical nature of ...