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 ...

Opinion: How sad, to celebrate the 250th birthday of the great American democratic experiment and no longer be the envy of ...

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 ...

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

Although the Royal Charter of the Colony of Virginia in 1609 granted the authority to mint coins, the power was never used ...

Explore the roots of the American Revolution in this animated documentary. From the end of the French and Indian War to the Boston Massacre, we examine the growing tensions between Britain and the ...

Discover the 13 American colonies, their establishment by Great Britain, diverse characteristics, and their journey to unity and independence, forming the United States.

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

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to separate the American colonies from ...

Raymond J. de Souza: America's 1775 invasion of Quebec ended in retreat. Trump should ponder that French-Canadien Catholics backed British forces to defend Quebec City from an invading American army ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ unaccountable kind of stupidity .” But the war would change Washington’s ...

OANDA reports the U.S. dollar's dominance is threatened by geopolitical shifts, digital currencies, and rival economies, ...