In 1765, England found ... American colonies: The Stamp Act. Now, all legal documents, newspapers, books, almanacs—even decks of playing cards—would need official stamps, purchased from ...

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought ...

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought ...

The check stamps have come into general use, and every check now made receives its proper stamp before acceptance. Much delay, however, has been experienced in preparing the other stamps ...

In the fall of 1765 and the winter of 1766 ... At the time, the British government’s Stamp Act had just levied a tax on pretty much anything that used paper. But the colonists were not fans ...

After Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788), The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Americ-Stamp, 1766. BM 4140 copy B. Engraving with etching and contemporary hand coloring. Graphic Arts GA 2010. in process. The ...

A quick history lesson is in order. The Stamp Act, passed by Parliament in 1765, imposed a direct tax on American colonists that required them to purchase a stamp for printed materials like ...

The opening salvo of the American Revolution was fired Nov. 1, 1765, a decade before the battles ... This year will mark the 250 anniversary of the day the Stamp Act took effect.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a direct tax on newspapers, playing cards, legal documents and other items. The act took its name from the stamp that was affixed to the taxed items to ...

The original 1765 Stamp Act is on loan to the New York Historical Society to feature in a museum exhibition. The act was passed to make America pay taxes on legal documents, appointments to public ...

Author Harlow Unger discussed the implementation and effects of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies in 1765. That law required that some printed material in the colonies such as legal documents ...