Once Americans declared that all people possess natural rights and that legitimate government rests on consent, women would inevitably — and rightly — claim those principles as their own.

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary this year, “John Penn” paid Hamilton a visit Sunday to give insight to what it was like to be one of the signers of ...

Virginia eventually seized and sold off an estimated 53,000 acres, plus personal property, which in some cases included enslaved Africans.

The American Revolution succeeded in independence from Britain but for Native people, the war resulted in displacement from their homelands and an expansion of encroachment.

British soldiers met at Lydia Darragh's house in Philadelphia, presenting the perfect opportunity for the Quaker woman to ...

Inoculation effectively eliminated smallpox as a threat to American troops, ending outbreaks that had removed large numbers of soldiers from service.

G reat Britain's financial grip on the 13 colonies of North America in the 1700s was upheld by a series of hugely unpopular taxes, introduced by controversial Acts of Parliament endorsed by King ...

Hundreds of Black men from New Hampshire fought in the American Revolutionary War, some as free volunteers, others as enslaved men sent to battle with the hope of ...

Between 1700 and 1775 over 200,000 Irish men and women arrived in the American colonies. Having fled British oppression, ...