The Fort Gower Resolves, signed by soldiers in November 250 years ago, was one of the first documents to express support for American independence.

Carpenters’ Hall has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress, with its eye on 2026, too.

A historical re-enactment of two events leading up to the Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence occurred Sunday ...

Hamilton writes his first political pamphlet, "A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress," supporting the right of the First Continental Congress to authorize a trade boycott of England.

It is his first foray into politics ... skirmish or the beginning of revolution. May: The Second Continental Congress convenes and creates the Continental Army. On June 15, Adams nominates ...

In 1776, the colonists were facing the ultimate fight for protecting their “unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the ...

The first three chief justices each served for ... private practice or political office was usually preferable to a judicial backwater convened in an unused committee room in the basement of ...

He had lost his very first contest, for state assemblyman ... a soldier in the Revolution, delegate at the Continental Congress, U.S. senator, governor of Virginia, and minister to France and ...

America250PA planted a Liberty Tree at the Cornwall Iron Furnace as part of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the ...

George Washington stood on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30, 1789, and took the oath ...

Independence Day in the United States is celebrated annually on July 4. This day marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, a pivotal event in American history.

The nation's original Liberty Tree was planted in 1646 in the Boston Common where the Sons of Liberty often convened to discuss ... they contracted with the Continental Congress to make 100 ...