The Confederation Congress implemented the ideas in two steps. On July 6, 1785, Congress passed a resolution “that the money unit of the United States of America is one dollar”. Then on August ...

Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascends in his gas balloon on July 12, 1785, six months after he and John Jeffries crossed the English Channel in a similar flying machine Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

Back in 1785, the Georgia state legislature chartered the nation’s first publicly funded institution of higher learning. Lawmakers also gave 40,000 acres of state land to be sold to provide ...

Thomas C. Middleton, GOSHENHOPPEN REGISTERS. (Second Series) 1765-1785, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 3 (1888-91), pp. 295-398 ...