Recent rehabilitation of this important site at the Gettysburg battlefield provides a much improved experience for visitors.
Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
In the Age of Discovery, maps held closely guarded secrets for the kings, adventurers, and merchants who first acquired them.
American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility.
John Glover and the men of Marblehead saved the Continental Army several times, and then helped it cross the Delaware to victory at Trenton and Princeton.
The dumping of tons of tea in protest set the stage for the American Revolution and was a window on the culture and attitudes of the time.
Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
At the Gettysburg reunion fifty years after the battle, it was no longer blue and gray. Now it was all gray.
When John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson as vice president, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.