The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ago emerge ...

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

The Delaware Wedge is a 1.068-square-mile triangular chunk of land where Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland meet. For 200 ...

The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags ...

Kaya & Blank for The New York Times Economic independence became a goal in democracies and dictatorships, empires and colonies ... and repel migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

One night in 1979, other operatives came to get him in the middle of the night ... and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He became a lecturer at the latter university. Nyerere sharpened ...

He writes pseudonymous letters under the name of Silence Dogood, a middle-aged ... the Pennsylvania Gazette. The Gazette became the most popular paper in the colonies. The sum of 10 shillings ...

The signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, gave the United States its official birthday, but that ...

During the middle ages ... codes were execution there until 1691 [sic]. In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic]. By 1776, most of the colonies had ...