From debt-driven taxes to colonial defiance, Britain’s policies after 1763 united diverse colonies in resistance, laying the ...

“We cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country,” wrote the resolution’s 51 signees. Their words were republished in newspapers across ...

This July 4th weekend, read about the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government Barbara Clark Smith When colonists began to argue with the British government in the mid-1760s ...