The American Revolution finally ended for Vermont in Oct. 28, 1790, when the state offered to pay New York $30,000 ($770,000 in...
John Adams withheld judgment when an intercepted letter revealed Dr. Benjamin Church, the Continental Army’s surgeon general, to be a British spy....
Samuel Huntington wasn’t as educated as John Adams or as brilliant a speaker Patrick Henry, but he was a hard worker with...
On July 7, 1780, a despairing Lt. Col. Ebenezer Huntington of Norwich, Conn., had no way of knowing the United States would...
One year before they signed the Declaration of Independence, the members of the continental congress extended an olive branch to King George...
Shortly after the Declaration of Independence was first read in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to Samuel Chase, a fellow signer from Maryland and a future...