Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, spend 2025 visiting these 12 Revolutionary War sites in New ...

The Americans had yet to declare independence, but revolution was brewing. The letter, addressed to “The Inhabitants of the ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions, in which leaders in the now-defunct Fincastle County crossed a line on the way to independence.

Courtesy of Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission ... Fincastle County, which existed from 1772 to 1776, when it was divided into Kentucky County, Montgomery County and Washington County. Map by ...

Story continues below this ad The US had previously tried to invade Canadian territory, which was then a set of divided British colonies. After declaring independence from the British in 1776 ...

Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America, briefly reclaiming the ... promising fair treatment if they ...

The Englishman’s pamphlet helped spur the 13 colonies to declare ... Love on January 10, 1776. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, several colonies of the British Empire were founded on the East Coast of what … Continue reading "What Hygiene Was Really Like In Colonial America" ...

While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies ... Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of ...