Hidden features in old colonial money reveal how Ben Franklin outwitted counterfeiters and shaped America’s first currency
Franklin was concerned with rampant counterfeiting in the Colonies. But he had a plan.
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Who really discovered electricity?
Spoiler: It wasn't Ben Franklin.
What Benjamin Franklin’s battles with a deadly virus that swept Colonial America can teach us about our own struggles with anti-vaxxers
When Bostonians in 1721 faced a deadly smallpox outbreak, a new procedure called inoculation was found to help fend off ...