Was Peggy Shippen the real mastermind behind Benedict Arnold’s betrayal? Peggy successfully fooled the most powerful men in America, including George Washington, into believing she was just an ...

By the time Adam Smith's An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations appeared on March 9, 1776, the American colonies were in a state of revolt and the British authorities were ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the legislative assemblies elected by colonial voters in each province. Americans ...

Thunder-clouds gather in the west, 1763-1766 -- Colonies ripe for revolt : the older British North American colonies in 1763 -- Parliament reimburses the colonies, 1756-1765 -- The liquidation of war ...

In 1774, British North America included 20 colonies — not only the 13 most U.S. schoolchildren are familiar with but also Quebec, four maritime colonies, East and West Florida, and Bermuda.

We reveal how malaria-decimated British forces in the southern colonies during the Revolutionary War—while local troops ...

But the Thirteen Colonies were, in themselves, a distinct phase of British imperialism. It’s true that the Puritans came to the New World to escape religious persecution, but the institutions ...

Jack P. Greene, Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995), pp. 52–53; Jack P. Greene, “The Origins of the New Colonial ...

The badly outnumbered Americans quickly retreated, and the British, not finding Adams or Hancock, moved on to Concord. There, they encountered a force of 400 Americans at Concord North Bridge.