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 ...

Adams, then vice president, watched the homages cynically. In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution ...

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 ...