Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” a mere 47 pages long, “swept through the colonies like a firestorm, destroying any final ...
On Jan. 2, 2006, 12 men were killed in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia's Upshur County.
On Jan. 5, 1776, Alexander Purdie’s Virginia Gazette — “Always For Liberty and the Publick Good” — published a report describing a New Year’s Day attack by British ships on Norfolk.
A U.S. Commonwealth State is legally the same as any other state, with the commonwealth name being a historical and ...
Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long ...
The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.
While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of ...
The 250th anniversary is keyed to the Declaration of Independence, ratified on July 4, 1776. Years of tension between the ...
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” a mere 47 pages long, “swept through the colonies like a firestorm, destroying any final ...
The kingdom of God is within, should we so choose, but not in the Capitol or the courthouse, writes columnist Rod Miller.