So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.

The Declaration of Independence is a foundational document in American history. It was officially adopted by the Second ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

This Fourth of July marks the 249th anniversary of Independence Day, but there are several dates that are related to ...

Poplar Forest's main event was a reenactor playing America's third president and a Virginia native, Thomas Jefferson.

These principles were not revolutionary but “ancient” and universal, they argued. “By one Statute it is declared, that Parliament can ‘of right make Laws to bind us in all Cases whatsoever,’” their ...

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.