On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. And much of it…
On this day in 1755 or 1757, Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean. If you need a quick primer on Hamilton, here are the…
The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was…
On December 16, 1773, a group of Colonists destroyed a large British tea shipment in Boston harbor. So did this act of defiance…
It was on this day in 1789 that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote what was probably his last great quote, a saying about the…
On October 26, 1774, the First Continental Congress ended its initial session in Philadelphia with a list of rights belonging to…
On September 17, 1787, a group of men gathered in a closed meeting room to sign the greatest vision of human freedom in history,…
On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted a new name for what had been called “the United Colonies.” The…
August 2, 1776 is one of the most important but least celebrated days in American history, when 56 members of the Second…
July 4th marks the annual holiday that celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. So how much do you know about…
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