Editor: Memorandum across the centuries to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: After the U.S. Constitution was drafted, you were asked what type of government we would now ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent French Court, and Franklin crafted his appearance knowing that it was a ...

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all ... This was the “flux” that Franklin’s editor’s note referred to. Did it render the boy too sick to be inoculated? From the outset, his father ...

Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words, ... Franklin became an American printer of national significance: the editor and publisher, at 23, of what became his nation’s most important newspaper, ...