The Continental Congress chose Philadelphia due to the city’s rivers, thinkers, and battles, and the city became the heart of the American ..

President Trump toasted King Charles III and Queen Camilla at a White House state dinner honoring the king's first state ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...