When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...

Colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence. Statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Thirteen American colonies then at war with Great ...

DURING the seventy years which had elapsed since the overthrow of the Stuart dynasty, the relations between the American colonies and the home government had been peaceful; and the history of the ...

Historian Rice, of SUNY-Plattsburgh, energetically relates a series of dramatic events in colonial Virginia that presaged the eventual tragic fate of Native Americans. In 1675, young Nathaniel Bacon, ...