This Fourth of July marks the 249th anniversary of Independence Day, but there are several dates that are related to ...

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting ...

May 20: Administration of Justice Act and Massachusetts Government Act, two of the so-called Intolerable Acts, further anger colonists. June 2: Quartering Act is amended.

March 22: Stamp Act — Tax on paper goods and legal documents. March 24: Quartering Act — Colonies must provide housing and food for British troops.

May 20: Administration of Justice Act and Massachusetts Government Act, two of the so-called Intolerable Acts, further anger colonists. June 2: Quartering Act is amended.

The drafters of the U.S. Constitution were suspicious of standing armies and sought to limit the use of the military in ...

The President, as Commander and Chief, leads the armed forces, but under the rules proscribed by Congress. The cornerstone legal requirement is set forth in the Posse Comitatus Act, passed in 1878 ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997.Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.

Dr. Joseph Warren lived just up the hill from Revere. He was a Son of Liberty and a leader in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. On the night of April 18, he dashed off a quick note to Revere ...

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate ...