John Hancock was first to sign Declaration of Independence, the first governor of Massachusetts and president of the Second ...

A Nebraska high school student got a chance to connect with American history in a city deeply intertwined with the birth of ...

South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to sign the Declaration of Independence ...

The Space Force general confirmed to lead the DoD's new Golden Dome office outlined his views for his role and the threats ...

The airframer's chief executive says international demand remains strong following recent battlefield successes, and there is ...

The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) will hold the First International Plantain Congress ...

Adams, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers enjoyed wild game and seasonal produce in Philadelphia's taverns during the Continental Congress, where food became part of politics.

For the fifth round of our Most Famous Delawarean poll – the last round before crowning the best-known First Stater – there ...

Saturday, June 28 marked the final evening ceremony of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) 134th Continental Congress as 4,000 DAR members and guests gathered in DAR Constitution Hall, part ...

September 5: First Continental Congress established. September 9: Suffolk Resolves. October 14: Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress. October 20: Articles of Association.

In 1774, when the First Continental Congress gathered in Carpenters’ Hall, in Philadelphia, more delegates had visited London than the city that would become our nation’s first seat of government.

This General Meeting created a Committee of 99 which became the defacto government of the state and elected delegates to the First Continental Congress: Henry Middleton, Christopher Gadsden, John ...