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

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all but ... of the approximately 50 people who had been inoculated. Whether Franklin himself was inoculated or survived a case of naturally acquired smallpox ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this ... but it was a better object. As Franklin himself wrote, “Our first papers made a quite different appearance from any before in the province ...

Benjamin Franklin was there ... He was willing to see himself as flawed, but through a lens of how he might be better. Maybe this comes in part from his work as a printer, and the practice ...

He recreated himself as Polly Baker and of course ... 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 ...

In 1727, young Benjamin Franklin organized ten convivial ... that would have brought an amazed gasp from shrewd old Ben Franklin himself. Without spending a cent of its own money (it had only ...