Just a few years before America declared independence from Great Britain, pioneers were fighting for what would later become ...
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...
The American Revolution reached a new phase when the war came to the sea. By authorizing privateers and embracing maritime ...
Virginia’s leaders took careful note. The colony that would soon play a central role in pushing for independence now had a powerful example of what submission might entail. Norfolk became both a ...
The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful ...
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to ...
IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...
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America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of Our Victory in the Mexican-American War
Today marks the 178th anniversary of our Nation’s triumph in the Mexican-American War—a legendary victory that secured the American Southwest, reasserted ...
"In the very midst of a revolution" : the proposal to declare independence -- "A spirit of riot and rebellion" : Lord North, Benjamin Franklin, and the American ...
July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...
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