Ben Franklin was one of the most frequently painted people of his time. He got so many requests to sit for artists that he once wrote of those sessions, “I am perfectly sick of it. I know nothing so ...

As Carla Mulford wrote in her article “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory” from “The New England Quarterly”: “Franklin’s figure offers a representative case of the multiple ways ...

Though Founding Father Benjamin Franklin had much to be proud of in his life, he harbored a large regret. The inventor and scientist, known for his experiments with electricity, wrote a cautionary ...