The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second ...

Franklin Public Library reference librarian Vicki Earls conducted loads of research into this literary origin story. The saga began when Benjamin Franklin was in France on a diplomatic mission.

The Benjamin Franklin Library’s temporary bungalow is now closed. But interim library services will be available in Boyle Heights.

The agency's semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., ...

Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent pieces, thus limiting the supply of the Franklin half dollars and contributing to current values that run into six figures.

Benjamin Franklin, 17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1780 Object number NPG.91.150 Restrictions & Rights CC0 Type Print Medium Line ...