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

The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as colonial elites revolted against the British in a quest to expand their territory across the mainland of North America.

Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part of the Mexican Empire, and then nearly two decades as a fragmented federal republic. Its colonial economy ...

America’s independence wasn’t declared in a day — it was forged through years of unrest, resistance, and revolution. This ...

North Carolina, first of the colonial governments to call for complete independence from Great Britain through the Halifax Resolves, has events this month in conjunction with the nation's celebration ...

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

The traditional organization of empire has yielded to a more flexible, resilient neoliberal reality in which resource denudation is coupled with globalized privatization of industry—one legacy ...

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

George III and his ministers moreover believed that allowing the American colonies to detach themselves from the empire would encourage insurrections in Canada, Ireland, India and the West Indies ...

We have now reviewed the political and administrative system of the British-American Colonies as it was developed during the formative period of their existence.

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

In 1774, British North America included 20 colonies — not only the 13 most U.S. schoolchildren are familiar with but also Quebec, four maritime colonies, East and West Florida, and Bermuda.