American Revolution Story Briefs

Sermons, like this one from clergy like Abraham Keteltas, supported colonial revolutionary ideas by saying that God and Biblical authority backed thei...

According to the Library of Congress, the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia when "Pennsylvania militi...

Joseph Warren, a popular and innovative doctor who advocated sterile conditions in treating patients and inoculation of small-pox patients, sent Paul ...

On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband about treating women fairly in the new government. He did not heed her advice.

Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), from Virginia, was an aristocrat who participated in many key events during the American Revolution.

While Samuel Huntington was president in 1781, the Articles of Confederation went into effect, thus making him the first president of the United State...

Parliament passes the Stamp Act, in 1765, and Colonial Americans rise-up in protest. Parliament repels it on March 18, 1766. Ben Franklin's cartoon dr...

After the Declaration of Independence is read to people in New York City - on July 9, 1776 - a gathered crowd pulls-down the statue of King George III...

The battle at Stony Point, which took place in July of 1779, was (according to the National Park Service) "the last military action of importance in t...

This image depicts some of the tea which was thrown into Boston Harbor on the 16th of December, 1773, during an event known as "The Boston Tea Party.

When it seemed as though the States would not ratify a new Constitution, three of America's Founding Fathers mounted a defense for ratification.

A famous cartoon, by an unknown artist, depicts how Colonial Americans viewed their mother country (and their future without her).