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251 years ago this week, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought.

The Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775 The members of the Massachusetts assembly rejoiced when they heard the news of Arnold and Allen’s victories on Lake Champlain. The same could not be said of the men who had gathered to form the Second Continental Congress. These men, who were representatives from each of the thirteen colonies, had...

250 years ago this week, the Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted by the House of Burgesses.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights Is Adopted by the House of Burgesses: June 12, 1776 By war, the former English colonies of North America had won their independence. But what they had obtained by war, they could lose in peace—if they found no effective means of governing themselves. Revolutions often follow a predictable path in history. First, revolutionaries establish a new gove...

113 years ago this week, the Treaty of London is signed.

The Treaty of London Is Signed: May 17, 1913 Italia irredenta—“unredeemed Italy”—was the name Italian nationalists gave to those lands where Italians lived but that as yet were not part of Italy. The most important of these territories were Trentino in the Alps, the Italian Tyrol, and Trieste, a port city northeast of Italy—all of wh...