As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony ...

Founded in 1681, by William Penn, Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen U.S. colonies. “Pennsylvania became the ...

Doctor, Jacobite and Brigadier General, Hugh Mercer was a great friend of George Washington. He fought the English and ...

Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic ... and reduced the number of capital offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky passed similar ...

Few Black people were brought to Pennsylvania. Historians estimate ... source of revenue of all of Britain’s 18th century colonies. They required large numbers of enslaved people.

On the morning of March 10, 1783, an anonymous letter began circulating through the military camp in Newburgh, New York, ...