Canada and the United States have had an important political relationship for more than a century. These two nations went from fighting against each other in the War of 1812 to becoming great friends, ...

We don’t like people who are nice to us. We like people to whom we are nice. This quirk of human nature, known as the Ben Franklin Effect, explains a lot about how relationships work, and how we might ...

In 1743, Benjamin Franklin's observation of a storm that contradicted surface wind direction led to the realization that ...

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 ...

The Franklin Institute was founded in 1824 in Philadelphia to honor the legacy of Benjamin Franklin. Two centuries later, it remains a destination for science and technology education, recognition, ...

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 ...