When you think of Benjamin Franklin, you might picture his well-worn bench or the ... At age 20, Franklin sketched out his ...

In his honest reflection and in sharing the wisdom of his experience, Bush embodied the best of the tradition of presidents ...

Veterans Day had its origin in 1918 at the end of World War I, a conflict that was at that time so horrendous that it was ...

But more than anything he was an exemplar of civic virtue. From the country’s inception, towering figures like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin have emphasized the importance of cultivating ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from ...

After another loss to Ohio State, the Nittany Lions and coach James Franklin ask more existential questions of themselves.

Richard Price is still a master of crime writing, even if his new novel turns out to be a peaceful story about stumbling into ...

In 1789, electors chosen by ten states cast ballots and elected George Washington as our first President of the United States.  America’s first election would not fit the modern definition of a ...