The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

With stories like “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson was one of the great horror authors of the 20th century. In 2012, Ruth Franklin wrote a biography of the writer called ...

The secret meetings took place in December 1775 at Carpenters' Hall and helped lead to a critical supply of ammunitions and ...

Pamela Walker Laird: For years I wondered why popular culture cared about claims that someone was self-made, especially because it’s impossible to succeed without access to social capital — that is, ...

After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was ...

Lions247 recaps and tracks Penn State's recruiting and roster activity in wake of the firing of head coach James Franklin. The James Franklin era came to an end Sunday afternoon and Penn State's ...

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Former Alabama coach Nick Saban called Penn State's midseason firing of James Franklin "unfair as hell." Franklin was fired on Oct. 12, just weeks after his team was ranked No. 2 in the nation. In 12 ...

James Franklin stated in an ESPN interview that he is still determined to win a national championship elsewhere. The firing followed a series of losses, including two to underdog teams, and a ...

Benjamin L. de Bivort is the co-chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: Your research focuses on evolution through ...

Travel enabled him to cast his gaze beyond Puritan Boston and imagine fresh possibilities. What advice might the peripatetic founder offer us modern-day travelers? Here are five lessons, culled from ...