The sculpture depicts Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Social media platforms have long proved a popular outlet for the circulation of quotes from well-known figures, with a significant proportion of them being mistattributed or apocryphal. A ...

Founding father Benjamin Franklin paused his tour of the commonwealth’s classrooms to visit the 2026 Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

Benjamin Franklin wasn't just a founder of the United States, he was also a writer, inventor, scientist, statesman, and a ...

Some of Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments—his kite experiment, establishing the first American subscription library, and signing the Declaration of Independence—are pretty iconic. Here are 10 of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. “In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France as a sort ...

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 ...

This extended scene from BENJAMIN FRANKLIN includes bonus material not in the final film. An African slave in Boston, Onesimus, introduced Cotton Mather to the concept of inoculation, which meant ...