1740 This American long arm, which predates the War ... this sturdy musket appears to be entirely constructed in the Colonies. Its heavy round barrel is marked, “new hampshire militia ...

Reverend Blaxton, among other claims to fame, planted the first seeds that would fuel a pioneering nation and give apples an image of all-American wholesomeness. A bookish and eccentric loner ...

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 ...

It was not a straightforward task for these disparate entities to come together to resist efforts by the British Parliament to impose greater control over its North American colonies in the 18th ...

One of the most pernicious allegations made against the African-American people was that our ... the largest slave revolt ever staged in the 13 colonies. On Sunday, Sept. 9, 1739, a day free ...

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 ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back ...

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 ...

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.