A sculpture of Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" snake is coming to Philadelphia's Independence Mall this year. Why it ...

A sculpture inspired by an iconic political cartoon is taking shape in Philadelphia. Artist John Collins is creating a ...

New Honor Comes Just in Time to Celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month in September! NASHVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES, August ...

Benjamin Franklin, scientist, philosopher, author and the most celebrated American on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the era of revolution, was born on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. The ...

“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously in 1791 and has “brought affliction to millions of boys since, whose fathers had read Franklin’s pernicious biography.” Or so said Mark ...

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 ...

Today we are taking a look at the life of Benjamin Franklin who was the former President of Pennsylvania, when that was still an official title. This ...

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

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

Another meme attempting to put words into the mouths of historical figures is making the rounds on Facebook. This time, it’s Benjamin Franklin in the spotlight. The June 23 post, which gained more ...