In 1723, a teenage Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia ready to reinvent himself. He was a penniless apprentice printer with a hunger for knowledge and a burning ambition. Over the next 50 years, he would fashion himself into the most celebrated American of his time.
Franklin became a printer, a politician, a postmaster and an inventor. He tied a key ... Show More
Jun 2024
Benjamin Franklin | The Flame of Liberty | 2
<p>In the spring of 1775, Benjamin Franklin left London for America after years of fruitless attempts to ease tensions with the British government. By the time he arrived home in Philadelphia, American and British soldiers had fired the first shots of the Revolutionary War, and F ... Show More
38m 38s
Mar 2022
Benjamin Franklin with Ken Burns
<p>Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a scientist, inventor, writer and diplomat. As one of the leading figures of early American history, Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, worked to negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War in ... Show More
33m 26s
Oct 2022
Por trás das Lendas - EP5: Benjamin Franklin
Sendo a única pessoa a ter assinado a Declaração de Independência em 1776, o Tratado de Aliança com a França em 1778, o Tratado de Paris em 1783 e a Constituição dos Estados Unidos em 1787, Benjamin Franklin entrou para a história como talvez o mais importante Pai Fundador dos Es ... Show More
19m 33s
Apr 2021
American Espionage Was Born in the Dark Taverns of Philadelphia
Philadelphia is often referred to as the birthplace of a nation, but it would also be fair to say that it was the birthplace of American espionage.<br> <br>Today’s guests, Keith Melton and Robert Wallace, author of Spy Sites of Philadelphia, discuss the city’s secret history from ... Show More
37m 9s
Jan 2022
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Join Gen-Z Media producer, Claire McClanahan, for the first of four conversations with Ben Franklin expert, Dr George Boudreau. In this episode we learn a little bit more about who Ben Franklin was, in his younger years, before he was an elder statesman on the hundred dollar bill ... Show More
9m 6s