One of those things “everybody knows” is that the October 1781 surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown marked “the end” of ...
An Ulster connection to the American Declaration of Independence has been commemorated in a new stamp. John Dunlap, who was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1747, printed the first broadside copies ...
We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a ...
The time capsule will be opened as part of celebrations for the 175th anniversary of a historic borough in Pennsylvania.
Starting in March, a Freedom Plane (also inspired by the Freedom Trains) carrying seven original documents related to America ...
Over the weekend, I visited the Freedom Truck, a mobile museum that tells the story of how the 13 colonies declared independence. The interactive exhibit, which was parked in Boca Raton for the ...
Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to ...
The author says Rhode Island's direct military role in the American Revolution was limited, but its unique history of ...
Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.