Benjamin Franklin's adage, "Early to bed and early to rise," highlights the importance of rest and intentional mornings for a ...

Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States, was a man of many talents. He invented the lightning rod and ...

Reenactors portraying George Washington and Ben Franklin say America’s 250th is a chance to tell the true, complex story of America’s founding.

Today’s quote of the day is by Benjamin Franklin. He was a polymath inventor, writer, and statesman. He is one of the four ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin wasn’t just America’s preeminent statesman and inventor—he was also one of its first tornado chasers. An excerpt from Lee Sandlin’s Storm Kings. Benjamin Franklin was a universally ...

Feingold is the curator of the numismatic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The collection includes roughly 1.6 million objects, everything from ...