Franklin believed a turkey killed with electricity would be tastier than one dispatched by conventional means: decapitation. Photo illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash ...

Looking for more ways to engage with Benjamin Franklin? These engagement resources are designed for families, educators, and communities to explore ways to tell untold stories in American history and ...

On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that could ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin, scientist, philosopher, author and the most celebrated American on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the era of revolution, was born on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. The ...

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Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on Philadelphia’s ...