When it becomes clear that the British won’t win in New England, they set their sights on the South. When the British realize they won’t win in New England, they change their tactics. Instead of ...
Jan. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union. In 1811, Timothy Pickering, a ...
When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...
“We cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country,” wrote the resolution’s 51 signees. Their words were republished in newspapers across ...
When the thirteen colonies declared independence in 1776, they turned to Great Britain’s rival France for aid. At first, France provided only clandestine support. It feared that publicly siding with ...
New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come America's 250th Anniversary These ...
CAMBRIDGE — The subjects of the 44 photographs in Wendel A. White’s “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” range in date from the 1700s to early in this century. The show runs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of ...
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