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

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

This Fourth of July marks the 249th anniversary of Independence Day, but there are several dates that are related to ...

Three US presidents died on July 4, all nation-makers. Two of them, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in ...

America’s independence wasn’t declared in a day — it was forged through years of unrest, resistance, and revolution. This powerful chronicle traces th ...

Beneath the Independence Day pomp lies an uncomfortable, ironic truth: You’re not as free as you think, the Heritage Foundation’s Paul Mullen writes.

The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

Lake County is dedicating a Liberty Tree to symbolize American independence and unity, with a public ceremony on June 30 at ...