Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... This led to the American Revolution, with its ethos of freedom and equality. The spirit of the age was ...

The story of the American Revolution as traditionally recounted is the saga of the thirteen colonies fighting their colonial ruler, Britain, for independence. But an equally compelling part of the ...

Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone was among the first white explorers in Kentucky in the late 1760s. With his knowledge of ...

When the Colonies got too brassy ... found agreement in their disagreements and laid the groundwork for a revolution Alexis Coe The artwork was a gift from the Marquis de Lafayette, who also ...

In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered ... Smithsonian curator who studies American identity, I explore the ...

How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new ...

[Author’s Note: This is the thirteenth excerpt from a work titled An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. This ...

When Congress was attempting to ratify the Constitution in 1787, it created printed copies to send to the original 13 American colonies. One of these copies was found in a filing cabinet at a ...

“Celebrate with two of America’s oldest and favorite drinks: American whiskey and coffee.” —Stephen Kurpinsky, U.S. brand ambassador at Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur • 1 oz. American whiskey ...

Loyalists, those who opposed the rebellion that created the United States, remain poorly understood in large part because of the teleological implications of framing the American Revolution as the ...

This metric accounts for the percentage of children ages 3 to 4 enrolled in a nursery school or preschool program, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is two years away ... to France providing military and financial support to the colonies.