Of course Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph. At age 22 in 1728, his dark humor stronger than his sense of history, he ...

When the grounds were later renovated, his body was moved and his grave lost. Francis Folger Franklin, Benjamin and Deborah’s first child together, was born in 1732. His proud and doting parents ...

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 ...