The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

In the fall of 1774, Adams and 55 other delegates journeyed all manner of distances by foot, horseback and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the ...

The United States Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary with special stamps featuring a familiar face.

To whom among them should the Second Continental Congress delegates look as most likely to successfully deliver the new government, fulfilling nationhood at this most critical juncture? While the ...

This Thursday is the 2025 National Day of Prayer, a tradition as old as the U.S. itself. Here's what to know about the day ...

A Foxborough sophomore is the only student from Massachusetts selected to participate in the inaugural Young People's Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Here in Boston, we are no strangers to ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

Wetmore, to whom the society seems at various periods to have been under great obligations, Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress ...