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

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

Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were two of America's founding fathers, but they shared one complicated relationship, says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “documents that forged a nation” started their tour through the United States Monday for the semiquincentennial celebration of American independence. The National Archives launched the Freedom ...

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 ...