Benjamin Franklin

On the day after Christmas, the largest container ship to call at a US port will stop by the Port of Los Angeles,…

It’s one of those Thanksgiving fun facts I loved repeating when I was a kid: Ben Franklin liked turkeys so much that…

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents—but safeguarding state secrets was not among them. According to a…

The Glass Harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761 and has been making creepy music ever since. Take a…

How could Benjamin Franklin be a writer, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, civic…

Benjamin Franklin first shocked himself in 1746, while conducting experiments on electricity with found objects from…

Benjamin Franklin's perspicacity never fails to amaze. In few places is his mental acuity more evident than his…

The fabulous Olly Moss has taken Benjamin Franklin's classic "Join, or Die" political cartoon and added a little…

In 1998, a group called the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House began renovations on Franklin's London residence, No.…

When it comes to old academic societies, there isn't an organization on Earth that can hold a candle to Britain's Roy…

Much of the southeastern US is struggling with Chinese tallow trees, an invasive species that is overrunning the…

That, at least, was Benjamin Franklin's theory. (He also said we should be early to rise, because he was a jerk, I…

Pop quiz time! An evil botanist from 1760 has time-traveled to the present and conspires to take over modernity with…

Are you one of those people that likes to doodle on a dollar bill? Deface the president with a goatee? If so, then…

The Declaration of Independence, Washington crossing the Delaware, the Constitutional Convention: all great moments…