He famously said the Founders had created "a republic, if you can keep it." How have we kept it? And can we continue?

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A republic,” Benjamin Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” The anecdote has become part of the lore of America, and for good reason.

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They ...

Selby Kiffer, international senior specialist for books and manuscripts at Sotheby's, selected special items from the Jay T. Snider collection of Benjamin Franklin for Philadelphia audiences. (Maiken ...

The trove of books, broadsides, letters, and manuscripts is valued at $3 million to $4.5 million. Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Benjamin Franklin. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian ...

Christian author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas accused Tucker Carlson this week of a "satanic inversion" of the book of Esther's message, after Carlson criticized its application to current events ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, the Delaware River Port Authority will close the span to traffic on July 11 and host a celebration inviting people to walk its deck. DRPA ...

However, one of the key figures of that era, Benjamin Franklin, still had an impact on Texas and its own independence decades later. Richard Bache, Jr., Franklin’s grandson, fought in the Texas ...

Today, meteorologists routinely track storms moving across the country. Radar shows rain approaching, satellites follow hurricanes along the coast, and forecast models predict where systems will go ...

As a letter to Franklin from George Washington goes up for auction, the author and inventor also figures in New York Lottery commercials. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’re in for ...