Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

Even though our city was founded 20 years after Americans declared independence from British colonial rule, we thought it ...

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In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Among the many grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence, few are as often overlooked today as the complaint about quartering troops: "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

In a tribute to a quarter-millennium of military service and sacrifice, the City of Dublin and Parks Reserve Forces Training ...

President Trump will start the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...

Meet the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence: Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress ...

Trump kicks off a yearlong celebration that’s mean to be unifying and nonpartisan. But that’s not really his style.

ELMONT, NY — The Indian Diaspora Center at the Dr. Thomas Abraham Library, in collaboration with the Global Organization of ...

Bakels said the Seminoles' tactic was to fall back, luring the soldiers into a trap. Then, according to accounts of the ...