The American Revolution cemented the importance of a federally protected post office in the minds of the people and ...

Musk has called the inventor and public servant a hero. But Franklin had a different vision of serving the public.

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 ...