The founding father came up with some of the most-enduring business advice in Colonial America.

He famously said the Founders had created "a republic, if you can keep it." How have we kept it? And can we continue?

The Academy Award winner stars as founding father Benjamin Franklin in the new limited-series from Apple TV+ Julia Moore is a TV Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

In 1731, book lover Franklin created the Library Company of Philadelphia, where this week visitors can see a collection of his papers worth an estimated $3 million to $4.5 million ...

Franklin was curious about the world and he operated in it as a gentlemanly scientist. America’s Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was intellectually curious about the world and he operated in it as a ...

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote to a friend in 1789 that the new American Constitution appeared to be permanent, but that in ...

On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that could ...

Origins: Benjamin Franklin is one of those figures who was so ubiquitous during the American Revolution and the early history of the U.S. that many people incorrectly assume he once served as a U.S.

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

Franklin is worth watching — not only for what it reveals about how the U.S. won independence from England then – but also about the complexities of war, and international politics now. This is FRESH ...