John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

On April 12, 1776, the 4th Provincial Congress in session at Halifax, North Carolina, passed a resolution that became known ...

Possibly, the Founders all knew that their creation was not on solid ground. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what government ...

Since officially declaring its independence from British rule on July 4, 1776, the US government has shown unrelenting ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

On April 12, 1776, the 4th Provincial Congress in session at Halifax passed a resolution that became known as “The Halifax Resolves.” In this document, North Carolinians declared ...

Virginia's flag, and the motto it bears, sic semper tyrannis, offer valuable lessons that are still relevant today.

Each potential citizen faces 10 randomly selected questions from an official list of 100- and they must answer at least six ...

In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...

City archeologists identified a dry moat last fall of a British redoubt, a fortified military outpost, that had been constructed in 1781. Excavations were completed last month in the city's ...