The nation’s capital resided in Pennsylvania before Washington, D.C. However, just where in the state depends on the criteria ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The first U.S. flag, as adopted by Congress, features 13 alternating red and white stripes along with 13 stars positioned in ...

The First Continental Congress, 1774 The First Continental Congress, 1774 is a mural at Great Experiment Hall, Cox Corridors, in the U.S. Capitol, created by Allyn Cox.

In July 4, 1777 the Sons of Liberty set fireworks off over Boston Common and in Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Evening Post wrote “at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks (which began and ...

The 178th anniversary commemorating Los Angeles’ first Independence Day flag-raising on July 4, 1847, scheduled for 10-11 a.m ...

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.

Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...

The Congress had barely recovered from this shock when it learned that, for the first time since he has been in the White House, ... the Continental Congress remembered to applaud.

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It is surmised that the engrosser was Timothy Matlock, an assistant to Charles Thomson, secretary to the Congress.