It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... was sent off to Barbados with a West India captain to work as a tutor: “I never heard of him after,” Franklin recalled ...

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all but two of their final ... At some point she was told that Rogers had died in the West Indies, but proving his death—which would have freed Deborah ...

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder ...

A letter penned by Benjamin Franklin himself is currently up for sale, and its story is as fascinating as the Founding Father ...

Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History, Rutgers University. Moderated by Marty Moss ...