The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...
As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...
New Delhi: The United States now sits at the head of the global table. It calls the shots, launches wars, controls currencies and decides who gets sanctioned. But rewind the clock by 250 years, and ...
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How Did British Politicians React to America’s Attempts at Independence? Rather Poorly!
As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress, today, George III is “remembered as the man who lost America. Really, Parliament deserves that honor.” Below, read how four ...
Under pressure from London, British Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage put quill to paper 250 years ago last Saturday in issuing the disastrous order for a raid on Concord in the Province of Massachusetts Bay that ...
Left to right: William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield; William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth; Isaac Barré; John Wilkes. Bridgeman (2); Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth; The Colonial Williamsburg ...
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