A museum in Georgia’s oldest city on Wednesday welcomed a truckload of treasures from the earliest period of U.S. history — ...

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A new exhibition at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia, spotlights the little-known wartime contributions of the Jews of St. Eustatius Groundbreaking DNA Analysis ...

Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still ...

Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain were already boiling ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Massachusetts' central role in sparking the American Revolution is ...

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A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tripled down on her critique of billionaires Friday, claiming that the American Revolution was fought against the "billionaires of their time." "I want to talk ...