“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions to the Second Virginia Convention when he delivered his famous “Liberty or Death” ...

Following the battles at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Continental Army was formed by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. The Gloucester militia ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

This summer, one of those kids is representing Wisconsin on the national stage as a part of the Young People’s Continental Congress. “We are going to be going to Philadelphia, and exploring ...