Did you know that using Foursquare can make you just like the founding fathers? The Wall Street Journal's Zachary Seward, in an article about the delights of social broadcasting tools such as ...

Mar. 11—Time to spring forward with daylight saving time kicking in at 2 a.m. March 12 local time for most of the country. Here are some things to know: 1 Did Benjamin Franklin invent daylight saving ...

A bust of Benjamin Franklin, crafted by Flemish artist John Michael Rysbrack, is set for auction on February 7.

Benjamin Franklin fled Boston at 17 and found in Philadelphia the freedom, opportunity, and intellectual energy he couldn’t ...

Benjamin Franklin was a printer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. But despite only two years of schooling, he was also an ingenious scientist. In this conversation from 2010, Nobel Prize-winning ...

Philadelphia’s medical legacy usually starts with Benjamin Franklin’s inventions or the city’s historic medical colleges. But one of its most overlooked contributions to global health began in a Hatbo ...

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 ...