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 died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

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 ...

It is only natural that a conversation about an autobiography turns to a conversation about vanity. After all, who writes a ...

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 ...

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 ...