Just two years later, Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau would come up the river from New Orleans and, in 1764, found the ... at the start of the American Revolution, was on the space that's ...

The British raised revenue by enacting the Sugar Act of 1764. Although it cut the tax ... This eventually led to the American Revolution and independence. Why Did American Colonists Oppose British ...

Below, read how four members of Parliament responded to the colonies’ early steps toward revolution ... heavily for England’s control over the American Colonies, often in uncompromising ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... Franklin became an American printer of national significance: the editor and publisher, at 23, of what became his nation ...

This octagonal lighthouse has overlooked the Sandy Hook Bay and across to Manhattan since 1764, and is open to ... it featured prominently in the American Revolution. F. Scott Fitzgerald used ...

The first recorded use of the name “Clark’s Town” occurred many years later, when the heirs of Daniel DeClark sold off a piece of property on July 16, 1764. The deed filed in the Orange ...

Robert Coleman, immigrant from Ireland in 1764, rose to fame as reputedly “one of America ... a British officer who later became a Patriot during the American Revolution and served as a colonel in the ...

The Club, as Leo Damrosch explains in this group biography of its members, was a dining, drinking and debating society for some of the leading lights of the age, established by Samuel Johnson and the ...

He wrote influential books exploring the dramatic changes wrought by independence, bringing in overlooked perspectives — what he called “a collision of histories.” ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...