It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...

The president, who has flirted with regal rhetoric, wants a historic copy of America’s founding document placed in the Oval ...

The film discusses the formation of the United States government following the Declaration of Independence ... figures like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison, who emphasize ...

As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

They appointed a Committee of Five to write an announcement explaining the reasons for declaring independence: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin ... The Declaration immediately points to “the ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... One of the founding fathers who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence. The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning ...

Accomplishments: That could be a personal accomplishment such as running a 10K race, learning a new language or joining a ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...