Franklin and Jefferson promoted smallpox inoculation as vital to the new nation’s survival ...

A founding father’s impact is still being felt in Connecticut and America, over three centuries after he was born. Roger ...

The inventor and scientist had many groundbreaking accomplishments – one of his lesser known is as the first leader of America’s postal service.

America’s founding fathers were politicians, diplomats, inventors, and, at times, genuinely eccentric public figures. When ...

In an increasingly chaotic and unstable period in U.S. history, Redditors are wondering how the Founding Fathers would feel about all this. In an Ask Reddit post, one user requests examples of modern ...

With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was ...

For the first time in United States history, several of the country’s founding documents will travel the skies to visit multiple cities on their own jet in honor of the nation’s founding. “This ...

Samuel Adams discovered his calling in midlife when he got involved in politics and picked up his quill pen to write about it. Adams became a prolific writer of pro-independence essays published in ...

As they signed the Declaration of Independence during the summer of 1776, America’s Founding Fathers were taking a risk. Would they be lauded for their creation of a bold, sovereign nation or be ...

In letters to his wife, John Adams complained about the weather in Philadelphia multiple times as the Founding Fathers worked ...