A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the ...

June 14 is also a birthday of national importance. On June 14, 1775, Congress established the United States Army. Ten ...

We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve... The unanimous ...

Flag Day is Saturday, June 14. The Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution on June 14, 1777, that stated: “That the flag of the United States shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and ...

Wetmore, to whom the society seems at various periods to have been under great obligations, Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress ...