The two volumes have been prepared for the purpose of telling the story of the American Colonies in a manner that would meet the requirements of the general reader rather than those of the special ...

Reduce the much-hated taxes on tea in the colonies, which would increase tea sales and funnel revenue to the East India Company. The lower prices would make it easier for American colonists to ...

The conflict between Great Britain and her 13 American colonies had been brewing for some time. Americans viewed themselves as British citizens, and therefore entitled to all the rights that ...

The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for independence by the American colonies against their British rulers. What started with grievances over taxes and lack of representation ...

British monarch George III inherited the throne in 1760—just in time to oversee rising tensions with the American colonies lead to a revolution that reshaped his empire and the world.

He chartered the Virginia Company, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in the American colonies. Jamestown, Virginia, is named in his honor. The King James Bible was ...

Before the 1760s, American colonists rarely used cartoons to express political opinions. However, as the desire for independence grew in the colonies, cartooning became a popular medium for political ...

In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered ... Smithsonian curator who studies American identity, I explore the ...

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