George Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge. The cannonade continued without interruption on the side of the British throughout the day. Our men…

March 2023

Headquarters, March 14th, 1779. Dear Sir, Colonel Laurens, who will have the honor of delivering you this letter, is on his way to South Carolina on a…
June 1. — Among the many errors America has been guilty of during her contest with Great Britain, few have been greater or attended with more fatal…
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783. London, July 4 [1775]- Arrived at the New England coffee-house, Threadneedle…
In Congress, Friday June 7, 1776. The delegates from Virginia moved in obedience to instructions from their constituents that the Congress should…
July 30, 1776. Chase. Moves that the word “white” should be inserted in the eleventh Article. The negroes are wealth. Numbers are not a certain rule of…
Artist's depiction of the Great Fire of New York on September 19, 1776. The fire destroyed from 10 to 25 percent of the buildings in the city, while…
Abigail Adams in 1766 Sunday, 18 June, 1775. The day — perhaps the decisive day — is come, on which the fate of America depends. My bursting heart must…
Common Sense was the most popular pamphlet ever printed in America. Leaving the moral part to private reflection, I shall chiefly confine my farther…
Battle of Lexington THE AMERICAN STATEMENT in The Salem Gazette Salem, April 25, 1775. Last Wednesday the 19th of April, the Troops of His Britannic…
Your assuming the government of Massachusetts Bay makes it unnecessary for me to make any apology for addressing you in this public manner, further than…
Parson's Tavern, Springfield, as it appeared in 1902. Springfield, Aug. 30th, 1774. We arrived in town about noon this day and found all the people…