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 ...

President Trump has criticized a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, calling it "an act of GREAT ...

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

Efforts to celebrate America’s 250th birthday kick off in the county on Saturday. The Crawford County Historical Society ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And yet since its signing the Declaration has served as a kind of north star ...

The monarch allegedly said the U.K. would follow the U.S. in its "muscular return to colonialism” amid Venezuela 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 ...

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

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

Paine’s timing for “Common Sense,” the first widely-read pamphlet proposing independence rather than pleading for rights and ...