The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

Thomas Paine’s writing continued to support the Revolution, but once it reached a favorable conclusion, Paine returned to ...

Although our nation will celebrate its birth in July of this year, its story of independence begins several years prior. Throughout the times beginning in about 1773 the flames for freedom were being ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

The United States is a relatively young country, speaking in the grander scope of things. That said, it is a […] ...

Greenland became a Danish colony, around the time the concept of America was brewing in the minds of British colonists to the ...

A local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter plants and dedicates a Liberty Tree in Winter Park’s Central Park.

Where was America founded? The U.S. Constitution was drafted at the 1789 Congress in Philadelphia — the same place where the ...