Under his wing, young Marie learned not just the art of wax ... Philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, US Founding Father and scientist Benjamin Franklin, and others followed. But then came the ...

Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams ... having come less to resemble a starstruck young lawyer and storied elder statesman ...

Let us know! In 2015, Pope Francis descended on Philadelphia for a historic weekend. On an altar on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, with a backdrop of the iconic Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pope ...

Franklin Dhaka's first publication was not a translation of an American classic but an original biography of Benjamin Franklin, written in Bangla by Syed Abdul Mannan and released on August 14 ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Hundreds of residents from Massachusetts are running the Boston Marathon on Patriots' Day. Which ones do you know?

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Benjamin Franklin Britt was an American painter who was born in 1923. How much ...

Massachusetts’ capital city offers American history lessons at every turn Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Donny Bajohr Text by Tracy Scott Forson Visiting Boston can ...