Writing poems with themes of nature, immortality and death, the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson was one of our nation’s most renowned poets of the 19th-century. Daughter of a one-time...
William Penn was an iconic personality of 17th-century colonial America famed for the founding of Philadelphia. The London-born Quaker philosopher and entrepreneur was at the forefront of affairs in the...
A prominent pioneer of the mass usage of and distribution of electricity, Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific inventors of the modern era, who developed commercially available electric...
Thomas Edison was an iconic personality of 19th-century American business and engineering environment whose works pioneered mass consumption and distribution of electricity. He was also famed for making his bamboo...
The year was 1762, Abigail Smith, a 17-year-old Weymouth, Massachusetts-born woman meets her third cousin and childhood friend John Adams. After the meeting, John Adams, who was then a young,...