After 23 years of business, the owners of the Ben Franklin Store, Barbara Henderson and her son, Patrick Doherty, are closing shop for good. Henderson and Doherty have owned the five-and-dime ...

Key Points Ben Franklin’s right on the money. The small expenses matter, and they’re worth tracking. Adopting a budget and gradually adopting a more frugal lifestyle could do wonders for your ...

Benjamin Franklin's iconic 1754 'Join or Die' snake cartoon, symbolizing the importance of unity, ... More offers timeless lessons for healing America's divisions in the Trump era. (Photo By ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There is no documented evidence that Franklin ever made this ...

But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin by journalist Eric Weiner, “Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin ... Franklin’s work on the fundamental properties of electricity went far beyond the famous demonstration of the electric nature of lightning in his kite ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated ...

Bryan Cleveland, the department’s former general counsel, told the district "The Kite Runner" and "The Glass Castle ... Carl Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin, the Bible, and numerous ...

Benjamin Franklin had an exceptionally close bond with his son—until the American Revolution pitted them against each other. Benjamin Franklin and his son William demonstrate the electrical ...

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 ...

fiery destruction—thanks to the skyscraper’s sophisticated lightning protection system based on the designs of Benjamin Franklin. But did Franklin really originate the concept of a lightning ...