Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the colony's attitude toward the despised Stamp Act. He explained that colonists could tolerate duties ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America ... A leader of resistance to the 1765 Stamp Act, which imposed taxes on colonial legal documents and printed materials ...

Americans have never stopped debating the balance of powers, the rules of enfranchisement or how widely to apply the exhortation, “All men are created equal.” ...

his snake emblem resurfaced when colonists protested the Stamp Act. It would also be used during the Revolutionary War, and even by both sides during the Civil War. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the ...

Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, said Lexington and Concord “galvanized opinion precisely as the ...

Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, said Lexington and Concord “galvanized opinion precisely as the ...

A commitment to republicanism underpinned the American Revolution in ways that demand a second look 250 years later. As new regulations enforced by appointed officials aimed to transform communities ...