A Finnish American played an important role in the creation of America. How has Finland’s democracy succeeded?

On this day 250 years ago, a mighty assembly of statesmen, thinkers, lawyers, and patriots gathered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to formally convene a revolutionary body to ...

The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday introduced a new Forever stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, which is where the Congress met.

Sons of the American Revolution, Captain James Neal Chapter President Ted Cox provides the history of the first Continental Congress at a celebration Thursday. (Photo by Gwen Sour) PARKERSBURG — A ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. It took one member of the small drafting committee—a tall, quiet, ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — In September of 1777, the Revolutionary War was seen and heard in Pennsylvania. With a British victory at the Battle of Brandywine, it was time to go for the Continental Congress and ...

The Journals of the Continental Congress make an excellent textbook on free government. Excerpts would be suitable for the Voice of America. Full sets given to political leaders in a dozen languages ...