Matthew Spalding is the Kirby professor in constitutional government and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College and oversees the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for ...
The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history, Sept. 5, 1774. It was the first time many of ...
Passage by British parliament of the restrictive Massachusetts Government Act in May 1774, one of the "Intolerable Acts" issued in response to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, created a local reaction ...