In 1800, Benjamin Rush, the energetic, quarrelsome physician and patriot of the American Revolution, then fifty-five years of age, began to write his autobiography, Travels through Life ...

Until the end of his life, Benjamin Rush continued to be an advocate among his elite contemporaries for Philadelphia's black community, as evidenced in a letter written to Samuel Bayard three ...

The creations and inventions of Franklin's adult life are ... In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American ...