Benjamin Franklin

Before the slave trade was fully professionalized, newspaper editors—including Benjamin Franklin—stepped in to help connect buyers and sellers.

History has largely forgotten Canasatego, the Iroquois chief who eloquently introduced American colonists to the federalist ideas that would shape their government.

American retirees are inadvertently doing the Russian president’s dirty work.

Sleepy Hollow is back to deliver reliable LOLs and miraculously campy demons, along with a feel good mission to stop the apocalypse with some righteous Christian ass smacking.

The Constitution was written by men who owned breweries, imported whiskey, and humped cows.

Americans starting with Benjamin Franklin have been suspicious of liberal arts higher education. But lately the critics’ knives are out in earnest.

Jill Lepore’s ‘Book of Ages’ about Benjamin Franklin’s sister Jane didn’t win the National Book Award last night, but it reveals profound truths about sibling relationships and how far women have come since that time.