On this episode of Our American Stories Dr Benjamin Rush is America's Forgotten Founding Father perhaps it's because many historians don't know what to do about his outspoken faith Rush was the one who encouraged Thomas Paine to write Common Sense which fueled the American Revolution Harlow Giles Unger is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books including Dr Benjamin Rush The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Dr Benjamin Rush is America's forgotten Founding Father perhaps it's because many historians don't know what to do about his outspoken faith after all he wrote the essay A Defense of the Bible as a Schoolbook Rush is now known as the Father of Psychiatry the Army Medical Corps Veterinary Care and biblically-taught Public Schools Rush was the one who encouraged Thomas Paine to write Common Sense which fueled the American Revolution Harlow Giles Unger is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books including Dr Benjamin Rush The Founding Father Who [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the th century New York Times bestselling author Harlow Giles Unger of twenty-eight books including Dr Benjamin Rush The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation tells us how Dr Benjamin Rush became known as the Father of Psychiatry the Army Medical Corps Veterinary Care and biblically-taught Public Schools Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate nbsp Time Codes - Trapped Inside a [... more]