On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

The American colonists were friends with affliction and shared their suffering socially, in writing and conversation. Ben ...

Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid ...

America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain.

On the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding, the scholar proposes a revision of those events from a global perspective ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced him ...

That’s the opening of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” which commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War, which began 250 years ago Saturday. You probably know the political reasons behind ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town during an oft-overlooked encounter known as Leslie’s Retreat “Here … we claim ...

Four castaways become the first men of the old world to span the new, 1528-1536 -- Spain plants the first permanent European settlement in North America, 1565 -- Puritan New England's first major war- ...

Indeed, not every attempt to settle North America was successful. In fact, many European settlements were complete failures.