Last Updated on July 14, 2025 by Matt Staff The 1800s were a turning point in the history of firearms. As empires expanded ...

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to separate the American colonies from ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

In 1942, the British Empire lost much of this power in India, leading to events that eventually dismantled the Empire. Krishna Kumar studies, evaluates, and analyzes events in Indian history with ...

These principles were not revolutionary but “ancient” and universal, they argued. “By one Statute it is declared, that Parliament can ‘of right make Laws to bind us in all Cases whatsoever,’” their ...

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S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...