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 ...

While you might expect some of America's most valuable relics to be items like jewelry or coins, you might be surprised to ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

Of course Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph. At age 22 in 1728, his dark humor stronger than his sense of history, he ...