A new biography of Audley Moore shows how pivotal the overlooked activist’s work was to 20th-century Black-liberation efforts ...

The MPs reached the official PM residence, 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in buses for the dinner. Modi also recommended Benjamin ...

The most widely traveled American of his time, the founding father learned a thing or two along the way. American statesman Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic eight times in his long life. This ...

On the whole, the Founding Fathers, those towering patriarchs, fared poorly when it came to sons. George Washington and James Madison had none. Thomas Jefferson’s only legitimate one died in infancy.

Benjamin Franklin High in Queen Creek used to have most of its football games end within two hours, running the ball in every direction possible out of the Double Wing T as the clock kept moving. No ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

I recently read the biography of Benjamin Franklin, 1 and it did not disappoint. Franklin grew up in working-class conditions, starting his career early on as a tradesman and then pivoting into ...

Massachusetts is drenched in history. You can't go much of anywhere in the commonwealth without running into America's first something or other. But not all firsts are created equal. Some are endowed ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

“Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests,” according to this electrifying portrait of the founding father’s scientific ...

Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ...