James Franklin led criticism, but his younger brother, Benjamin, later strongly supported inoculation. In some ways, the divide mirrors the political divide around COVID-19 vaccines.

They saw each other only once more and were never reconciled. A few years before his death in 1790, Benjamin wrote to William: Nothing has ever hurt me so much and affected me with such keen ...

Even the intervention of Benjamin Franklin, who traveled to Montreal in April 1776 to intercede with the French Canadians, did not help. As Jean Chretien, ...

Unfortunately, “Benjamin Franklin” doesn’t really bring this founding father to life. While such recent works as biographies of Muhammad Ali and Ernest Hemingway provided Burns and his team ...

“Franklin” tells the story of how Benjamin Franklin, best known at the time as an inventor, travels to France in December 1776 on a secret mission. In the American colonies, the British appear ...

Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of ...

When Benjamin Franklin moved to Philadelphia in 1723, he got to witness the beginning of a risky new experiment: Pennsylvania had just begun printing words on paper and calling it money.