Pig Iron Theatre Company’s 'Franklin's Key' is a clue-finding, puzzle-solving uncovering of the 'truth' about Franklin’s ...

In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the ... Nini produced a great number of portrait medallions depicting prominent figures such as Franklin, Louis XV, Empress ...

American currency as we know it today has been in circulation since 1792. Founding Fathers, past presidents, and a selection ...

Even “the commissioned portraits we have of him are no clearer ... and again in 1990 in a collection of essays, “Benjamin Franklin’s Science.” ...

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

Harvard College Library At some point in the year after Franky died, Benjamin commissioned a portrait of the boy. Was it an attempt to lift Deborah out of debilitating grief? Given Franklin’s ...

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th ... a game dubbed "Treason," whereby he wired up a portrait of King George so that anyone who touched the ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in ... just had to glance at Franklin's ubiquitous portrait on the $100 bill to see there wasn't much resemblance ...

"I had to paint a portrait of Benjamin Franklin for the cover of Time magazine," he said, "and I was having trouble working from the existing portraits of him. So, I ultimately ended up using ...

Michael Meyer, author of "Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet ... also gives Sally the most precious item in his estate, which is a portrait of King Louis XVI ringed by diamonds. He tells Sally that ...