During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress was the national government ... And during the Great Depression, and then the Second World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran a command ...

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established a postal system for the United Colonies and appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first ...

Old photographs of the Philadelphia BMC Local 7048 members cover the walls of the union local's office (Kenny Cooper/WHYY) Before the Second Continental Congress raised the Marines in 1775, the ...

Without a willing and ready Congress to act in concert with FDR, the New Deal would have been no deal at all. The mythic air surrounding Roosevelt’s first 100 days established it as a standard ...

Have you ever opened a menu and felt instantly uninvited? You browse each page and think, “there’s nothing for me here”? Well, Flora in Newtown is powered by the opposite feeling. You sense ...

All three, she concluded, were unnecessary: “The first took the reader out of the story, the second could be substituted ... had already spread to Continental Europe. On the face of it, Herzl ...

On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress established a naval force, hoping that a small fleet of privateers could attack British commerce and offset British sea power. Get up-to-date Navy ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who spearheaded the critical legislation after the tragic crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, sent a letter last week to Transportation ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

And they want Democrats to control Congress. So that’s one risk. The second risk is that even if the Republicans have control of Congress until November 2028, he may not have a governing ...

On that day in 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing the Colonies’ separation from England which is why the Fourth of July is ...

The bodies from the battle on Boston’s Bunker Hill were buried just days earlier when the Second Continental Congress authorized the printing of paper money (see “The Times That Tried Men’s Economic ...