The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a philosophical breakup letter. It was a strategic move to secure vital support ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution ...
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...
In 1775, the 13 American colonies broke away from Britain to establish a new nation on the ideals of 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' It would be a violent start, with eight years of war ...
President Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of U.S. allies tap into a longstanding vein of doubt in American political thinking about the value of alliances. President George Washington famously ...
Today marks the 178th anniversary of our Nation’s triumph in the Mexican-American War—a legendary victory that secured the American Southwest, reasserted American sovereignty, and expanded the promise ...
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...
An Ulster connection to the American Declaration of Independence has been commemorated in a new stamp. John Dunlap, who was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1747, printed the first broadside copies ...
As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution was anything but, in terms of the kind of fundamental change a ...