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The 1760s were a period of great agitation in the American colonies. The policies implemented by the British resulted in an outcry from the America...

With the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English common law t...

With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution...

By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650-1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advance...