It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

After the American Revolution erupted ... That is perhaps fitting. Benjamin Franklin, inventor extraordinaire, wondered what the future would hold as he confronted the French fascination with ...

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Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular ...