Established by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, the Postal Service was launched nearly a year before the colonies ...

Indianapolis Postmaster reflects on the importance of the United States Postal Service as it celebrates its 250th anniversary ...

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

Conceived as a broad public service, the postal service was key to US independence, Western expansion and ensuring an informed citizenry.

A U.S. House committee narrowly approved Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman’s push to remove grizzly bears from the endangered species list in the Yellowstone area, despite opposition from activists and ...

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.

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

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 ...

Perhaps no publication contributed more to the Colonials' drive for independence from Great Britain than Thomas Paine's ...