Benjamin Franklin, PBS Home Video

Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin, The TIME Cover: July 7, 2003

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

Franklin: Writings

The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

From Wikipedia
Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the best-known Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.
Franklin was noted for his curiosity, his writings (popular, political and scientific), and his diversity of interests. As a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and intellectuals across Europe. An agent in London before the Revolution, and Minister to France during it, he more than anyone defined the new nation in the minds of Europe. His success in securing French military and financial aid was a great contributor to the American victory over Britain. He invented the lightning rod; he was an early proponent of colonial unity; historians hail him as the "First American."(more)

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Biography Channel

Ben Franklin Papers

i, Ben Franklin

The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial 13" x 11" Framed Photograph

“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.”

Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man

Benjamin Franklin: An extraordinary life. An electric mind.

Benjamin Franklin Timeline

The Electric Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: Inventor
A list of Benjamin Franklin's inventions reveals a man of many talents and interests. It was the scientist in Ben that brought out the inventor. His natural curiosity about things and the way they work made him try to find ways to make them work better.

God Of Our Fathers
by WALTER ISAACSON
Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance or the display of the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse, assertions about the faith of the founders are invariably bandied about. It's a wonderfully healthy debate because it causes folks to wrestle with the founders and, in the process, shows how the founders wrestled with religion.

How We Rediscovered a Founding Father
by JAMES KELLY

In the City That Ben Loved
by HEATHER WON TESORIERO

Ben A to Z

Introduction to Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: Printer

Benjamin Franklin: Rising Citizen

Benjamin Franklin: Soldier, Scientist and Politician

Benjamin Franklin: American

Unofficial Ambassador to England

The Oldest Revolutionary

Elder Statesman

Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History

An Enlightened American

The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

Franklin Trivia
Did you know that Franklin’s picture has appeared on every $100 bill since 1928?

Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents

Benjamin Franklin Genealogy

The Wit and Humor of Benjamin Franklin

Franklin Firsts

Electrified Ben

Benjamin Franklin - Statesman

13 Personal goals of Ben

Benjamin Franklin: Scientist