From the Smithsonian magazine archives, some of our favorite reader questions about our nation's founding upon its 250th ...
In January 1776, William Franklin, royal governor of New Jersey and Benjamin Franklin's son, was put under house arrest by ...
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Who was Benjamin Franklin?

Benjamin Franklin wasn't just a founder of the United States, he was also a writer, inventor, scientist, statesman, and a ...
Police sources have told NBC News the identity of a man detained as a "person of interest" after a fatal shooting on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Three senior law ...
A US Army sniper who was taken into custody in connection with the Brown University mass shooting has been released. Benjamin Erickson, originally from Wisconsin, was apprehended in connection with ...