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

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.

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

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 ...

the newly formed United States Continental Congress dispatched a treaty commission to the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to negotiate America’s first treaty of peace with an ...

The election will test the new systems and guardrails Congress put in place to ensure America’s long tradition of the ...

Before the Second Continental Congress was convened in June 1776, John Witherspoon ... Our praise, duty, and honor are first ...

For the first time in the history of the Zionist movement, the 38th World Zionist Congress (WZC) will convene online via a special broadcast center in Jerusalem. Seven hundred twenty delegates and ...

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

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 ...

York has dubbed itself the First Capital of the ... While in York, the Continental Congress hung out at the Plough House and ...

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