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

Did you know that using Foursquare can make you just like the founding fathers? The Wall Street Journal's Zachary Seward, in an article about the delights of social broadcasting tools such as ...

Benjamin Franklin was a printer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. But despite only two years of schooling, he was also an ingenious scientist. In this conversation from 2010, Nobel Prize-winning ...

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 ...