The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the ...
Delegates from all thirteen colonies convene for the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The representatives remain divided — some hopeful for reconciliation ...
Over 240 years ago on Jan. 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, marking the official end of the ...
Introduction : to "stamp the character of the people" -- The republicans' new clothes -- The Continental Congress unmanned -- "[A]n impression upon the mind" -- The pride and pomp of war -- "The ...
"The records reproduced in the microfilm publication are from Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention record group 360 in the National Archives."--P. ...