Nov. 5 and Guy Fawkes Night are highly relevant to the U.S. election and the choice between incumbent Joe Biden and ...

The Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, celebrates the Second Continental Congress’ unanimous adoption of the ...

No longer subjects of the British Empire, Americans touted a democratic form of togetherness, thinking of one another as ...

1776, Richard Henry Lee, a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia, proposed a resolution declaring the 13 colonies independent of the British empire.

James Watt’s famous 1776 steam engine had ... it is common for historians of empire to be told they are denigrating the nation’s history by linking the British countryside to the trans ...

On June 28, 1776, a procession of British Warships and ... more and more ships arrived accumulating into the largest naval force the British Empire ever assembled: 500 ships carried 32,000 troops ...

Harpswell residents first heard the Declaration of Independence read on the steps of the 1757 meetinghouse. The Elijah ...

I work on early modern Britain, the British Empire, and the Atlantic World ... and Religious Toleration in Britain, 1776-1829,” in Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism, ed. Evan ...

The royal governor of Georgia, amid rebellion and turmoil, believed that most of the colonists would rally to the king if ...

South Carolinians recall that on June 28, 1776, an assault by combined British ... Their spectacular victory against the might of the British Empire — with the most powerful navy in the world ...

it was on that day in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence proclaiming America’s separation from the British Empire, was presented to the American public. The peace treaty acknowledging ...