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Benjamin Franklin

Michael Douglas plays Benjamin Franklin in new miniseries

John Fea   |  March 19, 2024

“Franklin” is coming soon. The miniseries, which will start on April 12, 2024, is based on Stacy Schiff’s A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Watch:

The Author’s Corner with Jan Wim Buisman

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 13, 2023

Jan Wim Buisman is a retired Lecturer on the History of Christianity, now a Guest Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). This interview is based on his new book, Lightning in the Age of […]

Benjamin Franklin is the subject of Ken Burns’s next documentary

John Fea   |  March 29, 2022

Here is Mackenzie Farkus of Boston Public Radio: Perhaps what most attracted Burns to document Franklin’s life wasn’t his status as one of America’s Founding Fathers, but rather how Franklin’s life relates to today’s world. “We don’t work on our […]