What Happened at Kent State? This English philosopher had a hand in two of the greatest political revolutions for human freedom in world history. That’s a legacy worth recalling this July 4.

The British during the American Revolution had occupied New York Harbor with a force of some 400 ships stationed off Staten ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The annual reenactment of the 1776 failed peace conference was held at the Conference House Saturday ...

a cultural history of nostalgia in modernizing America, 1776-1865. "The Power of the Press," Ben Franklin's Word, Podcast, episode 156. https://www.benfranklinsworld.

1776 - American Revolution. 1807 - Percussion-detonating principle patented. 1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver.

“Religion, Politics, and Martyrdom in the American Revolution: The Loyalist Church of England Clergy,” in A Companion to American Religious History, ed ... and Religious Toleration in Britain, ...

Late on September 20, 1776 ... American Patriots, who, in turn, accused the British. In this book Prof. Carp (Brooklyn) takes up that question, the first full scholarly treatment of these events. Carp ...

American officer Benedict Arnold met in secret with British Major John Andre on Sept. 21, 1780, with a plot to trade the American stronghold at West Point for cash amid the American Revolution.

Michael D. Hattem, the associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, ably chronicles this national habit in ...

The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history ... was held in 1776 with the war underway.

This pair of 1786 flintlock pistols was made with ivory stocks and unusually elaborate decorative details. 1776 - American Revolution. 1807 - Percussion-detonating principle patented. 1825 ca. - ...