His most notable humorous work is the collection called The Bagatelles. The Bagatelles, or jeux d'espirit in French, are a collection of comics produced...

to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after Benjamin Franklin...

the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter. Benjamin...

The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749–1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania....

in automobile use. In the two and a half centuries before LED lighting emerged as the new "gold standard", cities and towns across America relied on...

and its limits. Writing as, at the time, a loyal subject of the British Crown, Franklin argues that the British should increase their population and power...

During the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army and British Army conducted espionage operations against one another to collect military intelligence...

Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Those not in attendance included Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina...

Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine insurance underwriter, and later served as Postmaster-General of the American Post Office. He also was...

at Philadelphia in 1795, she was captured by Tripolitan corsairs in 1802, and sold to the commercial agent of the Bey of Tunis. She was purchased on 27...