Phillis Wheatley, a pioneering figure in African American literature, remains one of the most significant literary voices of the 18th century. Born around 1753 in West Africa, possibly in modern-day...
On April 22, 1721 a ship from the Caribbean arrived in Boston carrying a sailor with smallpox. Though he was quarantined, it didn’t prevent a smallpox outbreak from ravaging the...
Some of the major events that triggered the eight-year American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) could be traced all the way back to the 1760s, a time when a very indebted Great...
About a decade before “The shot that was heard round the world” (the first military engagements of the American Revolution at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19,...
The Liberty Tree, an elm tree, is considered one of the most famous symbols of the American Revolution. Situated near the central public park in downtown colonial Boston, Massachusetts, the...
When people think of Paul Revere, they generally focus on that legendary midnight ride he took on April 18th, 1775 to warn leaders of the American Revolution in Lexington that...
John Hancock was an American hero and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He is known for signing a conspicuously large signature in 1776 on the Declaration...
