Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America ... and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,’ as Poor Richard says. The collective wisdom was the ...

It’s been 250 years since that fateful night. Now, a different warning echoes – the specter of a new authoritarianism, writes Mike Dean.

This portrait, commissioned by Lay’s friend Benjamin Franklin, shows him with a book ... and his countenance was grave and benignant. ...His legs were so slender, as to appear almost unequal ...

The Founding Fathers were a quiltwork of conflicting personalities. George Washington was dignified and coolly aloof. Thomas ...

Why is it so fun to be right? As pleasures go, it is, after all, a second-order one at best. Unlike many of life's other delights -- chocolate, surfing, kissing -- it doesn't enjoy any mainline access ...

Washington loves a leaker. An “unidentified source” who’s willing to spill the beans and dish on his boss or colleagues.

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 ...