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.

It wasn't the farmers who wanted daylight saving time, and Benjamin Franklin did not invent it. Ten facts to know the time change.

Franklin, whose famous inventions included the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, reportedly suggested back in 1784 that ...

They couldn’t have known the film’s dreamlike, mist-filled forest — rendered in soft washes of color, so different from ...

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

"I want this to be seen," artist Jamie Wyeth says about a giant 1932 mural by grandfather N.C. Wyeth now in a barn he built.

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 ...