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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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." ...

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

In the fall of 1775, American colonists seeking independence from Great Britain were gathering resources and making plans for the fight for freedom. Among the questions that remained undetermined — ...

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 ...