The ahistorical garbage peddled by the Smithsonian is an insult to the memory of Franklin and to the intelligence of every ...

A Heritage Foundation expert called a Smithsonian exhibit "shocking" for suggesting Benjamin Franklin may have used ...

A popular quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin highlights the idea of ceasing personal growth early. This saying, though not ...

In 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” which “contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,” ...

As Carla Mulford wrote in her article “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory” from “The New England Quarterly”: “Franklin’s figure offers a representative case of the multiple ways ...

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 ...

A new musical playing in Philadelphia is reimagining Benjamin Franklin like you've never seen him before just in time for America’s 250th. ‘The Sound of America’ casts Franklin as a struggling ...

But Franklin’s ingenuity showed most clearly in his invention, or rather recurrent reinvention, of himself. In the course of his life, Franklin devised dozens of authorial personas in print, which ...