Just for a moment let’s look back to those folks on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia. First of all, this was a day (or more) of ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

Henderson and Doherty have owned the five-and-dime since 2001, but the Ben Franklin Store has been at 631 Main St. long before then. Doherty said they've had customers in their 80s and 90s share ...

Two Lackawanna County firms received investments from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Ben Franklin approved $972,500 in funding from January to March to support ...

Ben Franklin, known by many young people as the face of the 100-dollar bill, was an American icon of his day and one of Charlie Munger’s role models. Undoubtedly, the remarkable polymath who ...

Benjamin Franklin returned to Paris and for a time was popular. He wore a fur hat and a brown coat, giving him what the French saw as the look of a “rugged American frontiersman.” ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There's the famous "deaths and taxes" sentiment that he wrote ...

Even Benjamin Franklin, in his trip to Paris as Ambassador to France, wore a cap as a symbol of patriotism. Its rough-hewn look has become an iconic part of the American frontiersman's image. A ...

American statesman Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic eight times in his long life. This circa 1888 print shows the Founding Father arriving in France. Image Courtesy Prints and Photographs ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Last year, Bryan Chambers bought a used truck from Ole Ben Franklin Motors. He said, after a month, the truck stopped working. Several people have submitted similar complaints ...

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country’s future. By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Sailing ...

Franklin was apparently something of a sexual frontiersman, even at the age of 70 when he went off to Paris, but it is no more pleasant watching the 79-year-old Mr. Douglas leer after such ...