It’s fitting that Benjamin Franklin’s name is in the subtitle of this book rather than the title. Those looking for the life story of one of the more colorful of the Founding Fathers had best go to ...

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

The notion of 'really useful knowledge' was originated from the workers' awareness of the need for self-education in the early 19th century. In the 1820s and 1830s, workers' organizations in United ...

A few hundred feet from the Philadelphia birthplace of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, an anonymous brick building houses the nation's first learned society and think tank.

Over the years, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has grown beyond its name. From our roots as the Anti-Graffiti Network and then as community mural makers, the scope of our work has ...

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine – It took two trips to Boston in 1791 for the Rev. John Thompson of the Berwick Congregational Church to secure the signature of Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock on a charter that ...

When my family first got our Netflix subscription, I started to make good use of it and watch shows available on this streaming service. One of the first shows I watched was “Grey’s Anatomy“ because I ...

A heat wave is gripping the nation, a private crew from Houston is headed to the International Space Station, and California is seeing a rise in measles cases. These headlines may seem unrelated, but ...