This past Saturday, my son and his wife invited me to go with them to a play about Thomas Paine. This was an excellent one-man show with an actor that was properly dressed, moved realistically on a ...

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

“Common Sense,” his first major work, was an urgent wake-up call to every light-sleeping lover of liberty within earshot. In ...

That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution ... more vigorously that you not take his word for it. Paine was a student of history, and history is chock-full of ...

In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Redmond, Université de Lille (THE CONVERSATION) In one of his stand-up sets, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For Cross, it is pointless to speculate about the present-day views of men who could ...