Our Founding Fathers might be esteemed for getting the United States of America started, but they were still regular people, with all-too-human quirks, personality flaws and family issues. One was too ...
The April 30 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “The Founding Fathers had a reason for setting up the Electoral College” reopens a worthy question regarding our presidential election process. We do need to ...
Chronology -- Words, images, meanings -- Contexts: the history that made the Founding Fathers -- Achievements and challenges: the history the Founding Fathers made -- Legacies: what history has made ...
July 4, 1776. What were they thinking? The United States just celebrated the 249th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. That is the written document that started this great experiment in ...
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - John Adams was born on Oct. 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. He entered Harvard College when he was 15; the same age when the man Adams served as vice president, George ...
This month marks Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday. Near the end of his life, he wondered what life would be like “two or three centuries hence.” Well, here we are. What would Franklin make of it? He ...