Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...
Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 and is famously known as one of the foremost Founding Fathers of the U.S. He was also a renowned printer, publisher, inventor, author, and diplomat. He was a ...
Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...
When PBS stations air a documentary on Benjamin Franklin this November, many TV viewers will be introduced to 86-year-old Edmund S. Morgan, a featured commentator on the program and a leading colonial ...
It’s hard to imagine that homely old Ben Franklin, peering out from behind his bifocals with that eighteenth-century mullet (among the few things he didn’t invent was the comb-over), was perhaps the ...