UPI

On This Day: Georgia is 4th of original 13 colonies to ratify Constitution

Jan. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union. In 1811, Timothy Pickering, a ...
insider.si.edu

To American revolutionaries, patriotism meant fair dealing with one another

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...
Cfr.org

Treaty of Alliance With France

When the thirteen colonies declared independence in 1776, they turned to Great Britain’s rival France for aid. At first, France provided only clandestine support. It feared that publicly siding with ...
The Boston Globe

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

CAMBRIDGE — The subjects of the 44 photographs in Wendel A. White’s “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” range in date from the 1700s to early in this century. The show runs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of ...