Editor's Note: In this essay James Kences strives to correct an imbalance in the town's understanding of York’s Pre-Revolutionary War attitude toward the movement for independence from the English ...

Everybody knows about the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence, but long before these historic moments, anti-loyalist sentiments were growing in backrooms across the New World. Small ...

UCSB scholar examines how new forms of communication challenged British authority in the American colonies long before Lexington and Concord The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve ...

Suppose you were planning to declare independence from, and therefore go to war with, the greatest military power in the world, one with an empire, of which you are a part, stretching across the globe ...

Vol. 2, title reads: Minutes of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, 1775-1778. Minutes of the Schenectady committee, 1775-1779, and index. Prepared for publication by the Division of Archives and ...

Vol. 2, title reads: Minutes of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, 1775-1778. Minutes of the Schenectady Committee, 1775-1779, and index. Prepared for publication by the Division of Archives and ...