Meet the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence: Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress ...

The resolution declaring independence was approved on July 2nd, not July 4th. On Friday, June 7, 1776 the Resolution for ...

When 48 delegates from 12 colonies (Georgia being the sole missing colony) gathered in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the First Continental Congress, they had little in common.

Students and teachers from the country’s original 13 colonies are gathering in Philadelphia this week for the Young People’s Continental Congress to study 250-year-old history and also digest ...

By the time the Second Continental Congress convened on May 10, 1775, with delegates from all 13 colonies in attendance, war had begun, and the tone of the Congress had changed.

In Washington last week, chief endeavor of the 3,001 delegates to the Continental Congress seemed to be to see who could carry the most flowers. One Washington florist’s business increased 300% ...

THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Share full article. April 5, 1876. ... Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress," opening with a brief ...