Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary ... he owned and enslaved people in his middle age. He denounced the white men who killed native people ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Having accumulated a modest fortune, Franklin retired at age 42 and turned to politics. Between 1766 and ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache ... which he began at age 65.