click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the ...

On Friday, the Alamo unveiled a historic portrait of Benjamin “Rush” Milam just in time to commemorate the 189th anniversary of the Siege or Bexar.

The Benjamin Rush marker was unveiled Friday night at the corner of West High and North West streets in honor of the Dickinson College founder. The event was followed by a one-man first-person ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN RUSH (399 pp.)—Edifed by George W. Corner—Princeton ($6).In the summer of 1800, when Dr. Benjamin Rush began his autobiography, he was 54, America's ...