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…
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…
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…
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry signaled the coming revolution when he spoke at a Virginia convention and allegedly implored:…
On the anniversary of his birth, Constitution Daily looks back at what the British leader and author Sir Winston Churchill had to…
It was on this day in 1777 that the Articles of Confederation, the first American constitution, was sent to the 13 states for…
On November 1, 1765, the hated Stamp Act authorized by King George III went into effect in the colonies, despite months of…
The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no…
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