Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

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Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

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Americans have a right to assemble and a right to petition for the redress of grievances. They will use those rights this ...

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Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

Written by Paul Mullins On June 14, 1775—more than a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed and well before the U.S. Constitution was ever drafted—the Second Continental Congress made ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg officially established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in ...

Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.