The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the ...

The US $1 bill is rich with symbolism, much tied to the 13 original colonies: seen in arrows, leaves, stars, stripes, and ...

History exhibits take us back in time, but they cannot escape the moment in which they were created. That is to say, every ...

The Continental Army, created in June of 1775, had warily welcomed its new leader, George Washington, without much fuss. A ...

After the U.S. Army celebrated its 250th birthday on June 14, the Army Chaplain Corps celebrated the same milestone on July 29.

249 years ago, Georgia was among the original 13 colonies to declare independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. James Oglethorpe is credited with the founding of Georgia in 1733.

This eventually caused an integrated movement for freedom. In 1776, the representatives of these colonies came together to declare their freedom from Britain the form the United States.

Why the US celebrates its Independence Day on July 4 On July 2, 1776, 12 of the 13 member-states of the Congress “unanimously” observed that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and ...

By July 4, 1776, the colonies had formally declared independence, a bold statement that would lead to years of war. Washington’s leadership culminated in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in 1781, ...

July 4 marks the approval of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which declared 13 American colonies free from British rule. How do Americans celebrate Independence Day? Americans celebrate with ...

When Americans celebrate the 4th of July, they commemorate what they believe to be the birth of the United States. July 4, 1776, was the day the colonies declared independence from Great Britain.

America is celebrating putting the British Empire on notice with the Declaration of Independence 249 years ago. But the document that cemented the union in 1776 also infused President Lincoln with the ...