Canada’s fiercest founding father made sure that anti-Americanism was part of the country’s DNA right from the beginning ...

On April 19, 1775, 250 years ago today, the first battles of the American Revolution took place at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The day of fighting, itself the outcome of a gathering ...

“I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions, clear to the North Pole,” Champ proclaimed on the House floo ...

It survived largely thanks to its Indigenous allies in North America and backing from the British Empire. Aside from a few close calls in the 1800s, Americans have decided against conquering us ...

He had been convinced that it was the “manifest destiny” of the U.S. to conquer the entire North American continent, and called for a Canadian revolution against British rule. Ten years of ...

are placed by Providence [that is, by God] in the post of honor, because it is the post of danger....The eyes not only of North America and the whole British Empire, but of all Europe, are upon you.

but fulfilling designs on bringing the Rest of British North America into the United States! We burned their parliament in Toronto, and the British returned the favor by burning the White House.

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

19th-century divisions Following American independence, tens of thousands of loyal Colonists sailed north to Canada, determined to build British colonies that would become what one of these ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...