Interest in America’s revolutionary era ebbs and flows ... Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather. He’s been called the first American, but not ...

and with John Jay they negotiated the Treaty of Paris that officially ended The Revolutionary War. Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed the three pivotal documents ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career ... crucial years advancing the American cause in the Revolutionary War. It is still striking to read the tributes paid to ...

Getty Images The polymath and statesman Benjamin Franklin, depicted here conducting ... to become perhaps the most visionary radical in pre-Revolutionary America - he was one of the first people ...

The Wall Street and Basic Instinct star has made a hard pivot into prestige historical drama by playing no less a nobleman ...

The Libertas Americana medal was created under the direction of Benjamin Franklin. While stationed in France during the American Revolutionary War, Franklin received a detailed account of the Yorktown ...