President of the United States (March 4–April 4, 1841), b. “Berkeley,” Charles City co. , Va. ; son of Benjamin Harrison (1726?–1791) and grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901). Harrison attended Hampden-Sydney College and studied medicine briefly...

Charles Murray deplores our present state as a betrayal of the founders' vision of the country. I am not certain of what the founders as a group would have thought about affluent people taking safaris to Africa. My guess is that Benjamin Rush would...

According to information posted at the Web site Rush2013.com, a movement dubbed the "Dr. Benjamin Rush Project" boasts that "freedom of choice in health care is your natural right," and urges support for state constitutional amendments that would...

In a matter of a few years, similar associations had spread across the mainland US, and subsequently, to most of the Western World. Rush, a physician who would go on to serve as the Surgeon General of America, was among the first medical practitioners...

Along with Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Jay, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, Elias Boudinot, and a handful of other founders, Henry is often used to support the dubious contention that the United States was founded as a distinctly Christian nation. ...

The story history is more complex, gets more complex. Space only permits a slight fuller telling. What were some of the feelings felt by George Washington? Washington was a friend of Pennsylvanian, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). In 1790, Dr. Rush...