Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

The country's founders used media of the day to battle out their differences, but those papers also wrote about daily ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month.

Still, many colonists had not seriously considered separating from the mother country—until a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776. Thomas Paine’s ...

📅 Today in History: In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published “Common Sense,” a 47-page pamphlet that argued for independence for the American colonies from Great Britain. It was one of the sparks ...

Colonial America had been a destination for Britain's criminals for a while, but the American War of independence in 1776, forced Britain to think of new places to export its convicts, to protect ...

said January 6th would be “our 1776 moment,” while Rep ... This was especially true in Virginia, the oldest, richest, and largest of the colonies. Two days after the battles in Massachusetts, the ...

So it is with settler colonialism. At one level, this can be simply a descriptive term for how Canada developed from a string of European colonies populated by European settlers. The laws of ...

That response prompted an impassioned response from Plaskett. "This body, and this nation, has a territories and a colonies problem," she said, prompting some Democrats to give a standing ovation.

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