LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...

It has come to our attention that you may have held reservations, when you freely announced that we had a republic, if we could keep it. Would you now be so kind as to share with us those insights ...

In our early years Ben Franklin was the model American. Franklin epitomized “the American Dream,” that special something that made America unique. He was a self-made man, moving from rags to ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

MS. LOPEZ: His letters are marvelous ... but they allowed him to say things that he couldn’t say as Benjamin Franklin. He would simply put the words into someone else’s mouth and he could ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park will open a brand new special exhibition on June 28, ...

Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... Toward the end of his life, in a well-known letter of 1784, Franklin reflected in satirical fashion on the importance of waking early in order ...

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, arguing it was in America's ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...