If Franklin time-traveled to 2024, he might not be surprised by our fractured political climate. Polarization is not a new phenomenon, after all. He knew that “the opinions of men are almost as ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

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 ...