Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... and the design it represents.) Young Franklin at the Press, an 1876 oil painting by Enoch Wood Perry Jr. By age 23 ...

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 kite in a ...

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 kite in a ...