After the outbreak of the American Revolution, why did almost 80,000 Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, Shakers, and Moravians remain neutral in the face of fines and imprisonment?

With the patriot victories in New Jersey in late 1776 and early 1777, both sides realized that

What was the ideological basis of the Declaration of Independence as well as other local declarations?

What step did George Grenville take to try to save money in British colonial administration in the 1760s?

How was Phillis Wheatley different from most of her fellow African Americans at the time of the American Revolution?

Why did the concept of marriage as partnership apply to so many families in the late seventeenth century?

How did Patrick Henry and the Virginia House of Burgesses contribute to the growing rancor of the colonists in the wake of passage of the Stamp Act?

Why did the Continental Congress meet in 1774 in Philadelphia?

By 1779 what problem plagued the Continental Army?

What did Baron Friedrich von Steuben, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Thaddeus Kosciusko all have in common?