A brand-new book on the fave founding father who stars in our April cover story (and Ken Burns's new PBS documentary) examines the heady competition he ignited between Philadelphia and Boston. May the ...

From Benjamin Franklin to the present, authors have focused on the evolving workplace, and what needs to be done to make it ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Meyer, whose latest book, Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, follows a bequest Franklin left in his will to two cities. We know Benjamin Franklin as a founder, a ...

Bruce Piasecki, a Saratoga author and founder of a management-consulting firm based in Ballston Spa, recently came out with "A New Way to Wealth," inspired by his interpretation of Benjamin Franklin's ...

Biographer Stacy Schiff has won the second annual George Washington Book Prize for "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" -- walking away with $50,000 and proving once ...

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 ...

If you didn’t catch “Benjamin Franklin” when it premiered on public television last month, put it on your watchlist. There are many reasons to recommend this new Ken Burns documentary about America’s ...

There is a lot to be said for making America great again. But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin by journalist Eric Weiner, “Ben & Me: In ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There is no documented evidence that Franklin ever made this ...