On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...

That’s a legacy worth recalling this July 4. Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt, the chief justice of Common Pleas in Great Britain, took to the floor of the House of Lords ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

Revolutionary sentiment had been brewing throughout ... pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, spend 2025 visiting these 12 Revolutionary War sites in New Jersey.

It wasn't that the revolution in Saint Domingue taught mainland ... who were still enthusiastic about the promise of 1776, that not only could liberty be theirs if they were brave enough to ...

“In 1776, American Revolutionaries were inspired ... and self-government,” said President and CEO of the Museum of the American Revolution Dr. R. Scott Stephenson. “As we approach the ...