A letter written by Thomas Jefferson will go up for auction on July 4. Estimators value the letter, which discusses the right ...

Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

Every student who has ever attended a mock United Nations knows this – negotiations are never zero-sum games with all or nothing gains and ...

-- Treaty of Paris of 1783, settling the American War of Independence, signed Sept. 3, following an earlier agreement in which Britain recognized U. S. independence.

Holidays span cultures and time, and sometimes even lie in religious or secular commemorations. As they allow families to ...

Our Flag also represents actual boundaries and borders. It is a statement and promise that there exists an actual space where dwells a society based on these ideas of intrinsic personal worth, ...

In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As the oft-quoted theologian and author James Freeman Clarke is credited with ...