Feingold is the curator of the numismatic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The collection includes roughly 1.6 million objects, everything from ...

Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States, was a man of many talents. He invented the lightning rod and ...

Benjamin Franklin's adage, "Early to bed and early to rise," highlights the importance of rest and intentional mornings for a ...

Today’s quote of the day is by Benjamin Franklin. He was a polymath inventor, writer, and statesman. He is one of the four founding fathers of the United States, also known as "the First American." ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin signed most of his letters “B. Franklin” or “Benj. Franklin.” But some of them, especially those written in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, were signed ...

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 fly a ...

APALACHICOLA, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - It’s been 238 years since the U.S. Constitution was signed, and Florida marked the milestone with a new monument honoring one of the nation’s ...