The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park is opening a new special exhibition.

George Washington Spy Letter International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting a letter from George Washington about a Revolutionary War spy ...

The words of Benjamin Franklin are often invoked nowadays. On Monday, Sept. 17, 1787, at the closing session of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, Franklin, a highly respected dele… ...

Stacy Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor.

Dear Mr. Franklin: It has come to our attention that you may have held reservations, when you freely announced that we had a republic, if we could keep it. Would you now be so kind as to share ...

Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon.

Benjamin Franklin understood that the prosperity of the nation would depend on all of its citizens having the opportunity to share their talents.

However, when Washington’s response to the Newport and Savannah communities are considered together, the greater import of the less-known Savannah letter becomes apparent.

George Washington has gone from pious moral instructor of youth in early 19th-century biographies (“I cannot tell a lie”) to his current incarnation as a vapid business consultant in the scad ...

A letter that was signed by "the men most responsible for the Declaration of Independence" will soon go to auction and is expected to sell for $1 million.

Collectibles An Ultra-Rare Letter Bearing Benjamin Franklin’s Coded Signature Is Up for Sale The marking may have been a snub at the King of England.