Benjamin Franklin's adage, "Early to bed and early to rise," highlights the importance of rest and intentional mornings for a ...

Reenactors portraying George Washington and Ben Franklin say America’s 250th is a chance to tell the true, complex story of America’s founding.

Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States, was a man of many talents. He invented the lightning rod and ...

APALACHICOLA, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - It’s been 238 years since the U.S. Constitution was signed, and Florida marked the milestone with a new monument honoring one of the nation’s ...

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 ...

Today’s quote of the day is by Benjamin Franklin. He was a polymath inventor, writer, and statesman. He is one of the four founding fathers of the United States, also known as "the First American." ...

Feingold is the curator of the numismatic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The collection includes roughly 1.6 million objects, everything from ...

Dr. Benjamin Franklin had limited formal education. Nevertheless, he was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Oxford University in England. He also held ...