America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...

Marietta’s founder Rufus Putnam was energetic, creative, and persistent. Give him an impossible task and he’d figure out a ...

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

The British Embassy has trolled the U.S. on Independence Day by posting a meme on social media implying it hoped for bad ...

December 1776 - The Storm Before Trenton Washington’s surprise attack in Trenton is as legendary as it was nearly suicidal.

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. On June 28, 1776, a procession of British Warships and troop transports, under the command of […] ...

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...