MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. Interest in America’s revolutionary era ebbs and flows. It’s flowing again, dramatized in Hollywood, on television and in books. Its major players ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a versatile inventor, and one of his many contributions to humanity include libraries ...