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When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor ...

As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, this opinion urges Americans to celebrate the workers, farmers, teachers, soldiers, immigrants and other everyday people who built the nation — and to ...

In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

This UNESCO World Heritage-designated edifice may have been designed in the Georgian style, but its historical significance ...

Not long ago, the folks over at the Boston Globe turned their spotlight on, of all places, Philadelphia. With the nation’s ...

There’s a reason The Wall Street Journal (and Travel + Leisure, CNN, The New York Times, National Geographic, the BBC, and ...

Brooke Barbier is the author of “Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution.” As a young man, Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 words and phrases for “drunk.

Benjamin Franklin understood something fundamental about money that still shapes modern economies: Money only works when people believe it is real. In the early 18th century, the British colonies ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before he became a patriot and ...

A receipt from a book sale, discussions of tax negotiations and a mortgage register may not seem worthy of display in their own right. But throw in records of the early electricity experiments that ...

Selby Kiffer, international senior specialist for books and manuscripts at Sotheby's, selected special items from the Jay T. Snider collection of Benjamin Franklin for Philadelphia audiences. (Maiken ...