MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. Interest in America’s revolutionary era ebbs and flows. It’s flowing again, dramatized in Hollywood, on television and in books. Its major players ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous era of the American Revolutionary War, the new show “Franklin,” has sparked renewed interest in its namesake, Benjamin Franklin. It was his strategic ...