Americans have celebrated Independence Day (Fourth of July) since, in 1776, colonists voted for independence from Britain. On July 4, 1776, that the Continental Congress formally adopted the ...

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One of America’s Founding Fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush, helped launch one of the most successful Black denominations in America today. Rush (1745-1813) was a Philadelphia physician, member of the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephen Fried and University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell talked about the relationship between Dr. Benjamin Rush and Thomas ...

Harlow Giles Unger has added another major contribution to his collection of profiles of America’s Founding Fathers. His latest endeavor puts the reader at the side of Dr. Benjamin Rush from the ...

Before disparaging the religion of our Founding Fathers, Kerrie Lintner should get her facts straight. On April 21, 1803, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Dr. Benjamin Rush (also a signer of the Declaration ...

Stephen Fried is an award-winning journalist and historian, and a best-selling author who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. His next book, for Crown, is Dr. Rush, a ...

Michael Richman, SAAM curatorial assistant, 1967-1969. Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington, D.C ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj In the bleak but enlightening follow-up to Overshoot, climate scholars Carton and Malm explain that ...