Acclaimed South Korean poet Kim Hye-soon has been elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kim was named among eight new members in the Literature ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal ... for the enduring good of men," he wrote in his autobiography. Pinchot's ideas influenced Roosevelt's own.

This portrait, commissioned by Lay’s friend Benjamin Franklin, shows him with a book ... The book makes for odd reading—a mixture of autobiography, prophetic biblical polemic against slavery ...

Eighty-four sons of Talbot fought for the Confederacy; one of them, Franklin Buchanan ... Douglass, in his 1845 autobiography, describes an overseer whipping a laborer named Demby, then shooting ...

I open the case that they are stored in, and...it's this whole experience. You smell the aged books, and then you touch their ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

COLUMBIA, Md., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This Earth Day, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing invites homeowners to take a closer look at one of the most overlooked appliances in their home—and ...

His 2024 book 'To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause' is a study of dissent in the USSR, from Stalin's death to the fall of ...

Some offbeat news from Franklin Square: The Greek restaurant Alpine has undergone a concept change after nearly 40 years. The restaurant is now a brunch diner with a much more literal name ...

THE Harvard University Press and Mr. Cohen have performed a very useful service in making Franklin's “Experiments and Observations” accessible in this convenient form. Mr. Cohen has written an ...

And that’s when things got interesting. The previous December, Benjamin Franklin had received an unusual packet in the mail. He was living in London, where, among other things, he served as deputy ...