A U.S. Mint error created what’s now known as the “Bugs Bunny” Franklin Half Dollar. If you ever run into one, it could make ...

The Academy Award winner stars as founding father Benjamin Franklin in the new limited-series from Apple TV+ Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she ...

On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that could ...

In 1743, Benjamin Franklin's observation of a storm that contradicted surface wind direction led to the realization that ...

Origins: Benjamin Franklin is one of those figures who was so ubiquitous during the American Revolution and the early history of the U.S. that many people incorrectly assume he once served as a U.S.

Franklin was curious about the world and he operated in it as a gentlemanly scientist. America’s Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was intellectually curious about the world and he operated in it as a ...