I believe American history began in Philadelphia on July 4th 1776. It was here that colonists led by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison signed the Declaration of Independence. Up to this time it could be argued that what had taken place was part of British colonial history and not...

Listen carefully so you can hear, Of the memorable ride of Paul Revere. It happened on the eighteenth of April in 1775, But no one is alive that can tell you exactly what happened. He asked his friend to warn him of the British, By hanging a light in the church belfry tower. He asked...

As the British Empire spread its dominion across the seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, great masses of people poured forth to populate its ever-widening realms. Their migration unfolded in stages. They journeyed from farms to towns, from towns to great cities like London and Bristol,...

Percy Shelly was born on August 4th 1792 near Sussex, England. He was educated at Oxford until he was kicked out for writing offensive material: First he wrote a pamphlet called The Post Human Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. Then Next he wrote pamplet called The Necessity of Atheism, it was sho...