click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the subject.

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 ...

The making of a physician -- The making of a patriot -- Broken by a cannon ball -- The Revolution is not over -- My friends in jails -- Murder by war -- Hundred days of doom -- "You cannot die now, ...

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 ...

To Benjamin Rush, if liberty and equality were the birthright of every human soul, then slavery must be the enemy of the American Revolution. ‘So much hath been said upon the subject of Slave-keeping, ...

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