Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Benjamin Franklin, a towering figure in American history and ingenuity, may soon take a more prominent place in the U.S. Capitol, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by ...

(Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, postmaster, inventor, scientist, polemicist, diplomat—he is ...