It would be difficult to conjure what the United States of America would have become without George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. One can argue it might have been stillborn. Such is the impact ...

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 fly a ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...

What it’s about: The man who adorns the $100 bill was a true Renaissance man, as his beginnings as a printer and newspaper editor led him to leanings as an author and essayist, but also as a political ...

H.W. Brands is the author of "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" and other works of American history. Of all the Founders, Benjamin Franklin is the easiest to imagine ...

Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of the zeitgeist when deciding how to portray their subjects. George Washington ...

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