The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

Consumers are buying annuities in record numbers, attracted to the potential to participate in the market with little or no loss at stake. American Life & Security Corp. is feeding that market need ...

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...