The American Revolution reached a new phase when the war came to the sea. By authorizing privateers and embracing maritime ...

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Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago Saturday, an angry mob of American colonists swarmed three ships moored at the docks in Boston, seized 45 tons of tea and tossed it into the harbor. The popular version ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell opens her lecture on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies with a ...

NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.

As Virginia’s first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women’s viewpoints and collaborated with prominent politicians like Thomas Jefferson Alexandra Cox The story of how ...

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. Barbara Clark Smith, Curator, Division of Political History In September 1774, nearly two years ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...