The city was founded in 1799 by Abram Maury Jr., who initially planned to name it Marthasville after his wife; however, ...

There are 109 country flags lining the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. What happens when one of them starts to look a little worse ...

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 ...

A book revives the largely forgotten story of how one of America’s most famous founding fathers tried to make Canada a part ...

What this country could use is another Benjamin Franklin, says actor Mandy Patinkin. While voicing the statesman for a PBS special, “Benjamin Franklin,” Patinkin saw how he weighed sides of an issue ...

Despite it being the coldest Thanksgiving in Philadelphia since 2018, thousands bundled up to watch the city’s parade.

Franklin originally wrote the quote in 1722. It was included in one of a series of letters that were published in his older brother James' newspaper, The New-England Courant. All of the letters were ...

The No. 3-seeded Round Valley Elks, sparked by a touchdown off a blocked punt, defeated the No. 1 Benjamin Franklin Chargers, ...

It's no secret that there were many more songs conceived for Hamilton than hit the stage. Today, The Decemberists have released a song about Benjamin Franklin, with words written by Lin-Manuel Miranda ...