In this Texas history column, Ken Bridges explores Benjamin Franklin's rise to prominence in colonial America.
Two prominent landowners left their mark on the Valley and wider region, in some cases literally, as they worked to survey ...
April 17 marks historic events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, Benjamin Franklin's death, and key global turning points in ...
A new exhibit at the American Philosophical Society Museum examines the first 50 years of the Declaration of Independence ...
A new exhibition remembers Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
Even before Virginia voters decide on a new congressional map, Democrats are piling in to run for districts proposed under a redistricting plan that is designed to give their party a near sweep of ...
When you look your kids in the eyes and tell them that (sometimes) you have done the wrong thing because the other side did, ...
In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, Rutgers is putting rare items on display that date back to the earliest days of ...
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” a famous quote from Benjamin Franklin that the ...
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), American printer, publisher, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Wood engraving after a copper engraving by ...
An elderly woman crashed her car during Friday morning drop-off at an elementary school in Riverside, police say, hitting ...
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t include language guaranteeing a right to free elections or to a public education or to clean ...