Seacoast America's 250 events feature fireworks in Portsmouth, Hampton Beach and Dover, plus American Independence Festival ...
Our system of government was designed for a moral people who understood that ordered liberty required a profound sense of ...
The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...
Streeter copy, printed by Robert Luist Fowle, is one of only 10 surviving Exeter broadsides and one of just 120 surviving ...
One of the nation’s establishing documents calls Indigenous people “merciless Indian savages.” Today, many say the phrase has ...
Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...
The American Revolution is often told as a heroic story of 13 colonies rising up against a mighty empire and, with some help from France, winning their independence. But the real story is more ...
Discoveries from DNA testing, archaeology and archival research have reshaped what historians know about Jefferson, ...
Washington sends a warning about treachery within his ranks, the British invade, and five men assemble, fatefully, in Philadelphia.
The document, printed in a gothic typeface, was translated in Philadelphia. One of two surviving copies is going on display ...
It’s called the “lost copy.” Unlike most of the 25 other copies of the Declaration of Independence, with well-maintained ...