The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

Queen Elizabeth II recognized the Bicentennial by gifting the United States a bell forged at the same foundry as the Liberty ...

The First Continental Congress, 1774 is a mural at Great Experiment Hall, Cox Corridors, in the U.S. Capitol, created by Allyn Cox. The oil canvas depicts delegates from 13 colonies that met in ...

In the fall of 1774, Adams and 55 other delegates journeyed all manner of distances by foot, horseback and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the ...

The Declarations and Resolves passed by the First Continental Congress in 1775 drew heavily on Jefferson’s grievances in the Summary View. It announced that the colonies held rights of life ...

In 1774, the Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress proclaimed that the colonists “have a right peaceably to assemble, consider of their grievances, and petition the King ...

This Thursday is the 2025 National Day of Prayer, a tradition as old as the U.S. itself. Here's what to know about the day ...

Wetmore, to whom the society seems at various periods to have been under great obligations, Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress ...