Colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence. Statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Thirteen American colonies then at war with Great ...
Historian Rice, of SUNY-Plattsburgh, energetically relates a series of dramatic events in colonial Virginia that presaged the eventual tragic fate of Native Americans. In 1675, young Nathaniel Bacon, ...
At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...
"The Siege of Yorktown" by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe, 1786. Courtesy of the Hon. Nicholas F. Taubman. If you think the American Revolution was an isolated conflict between Great Britain and the ...