Principal Brett Umbenhouer warmly welcomed guest speaker Patrick McBride to Liberty-Curtin Elementary School, or as the kids knew him, Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was one of several ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

Humor has a way of transcending time. While historical figures are often remembered for their serious achievements, many of ...

Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends Sunday, November 2, and clocks will fall back one hour. Subsequently, 4 p.m. sunsets begin next week.

Although an extra hour in bed might sound like a great idea in winter, some research suggests that the clock change (which ...

Eyeglasses sit on millions of noses every single day, correcting vision and finishing off outfits. Most people don’t think ...

MIT’s emphasis on invention and entrepreneurship drives breakthroughs ... and law — embodying founder Benjamin Franklin’s vision of practical knowledge for societal progress. A Broader Academic ...

Thanksgiving is now only four weeks away. It's that time of year when people start thinking about putting up Christmas decorations -- or at least stop feeling guilty about not taking last year's down.

Long before the Wright brothers took to the skies at Kitty Hawk, humans had already tasted flight. The story begins not with ...

Thompson established a school in Munich, Germany in 1790 called the Poor People’s Institute, which provided food for children while they were in school. The first school meals program funded by a ...

"Back to the Future" deserves to be endlessly rewound. Shot for shot, line for line, it's the modern era's zippiest comedy ...

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