York County joins the rest of America in planning for three 250th anniversaries of the Declaration, Articles and Treaties with France.

The U.S. gained independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. Learn about the Declaration of Independence, the American ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up ...

Signed one year after the end of the War of Independence, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of the first treaties between the newly independent U.S. and a Native nation. It punished four of the ...

As part of author Lindsay Chervinsky's lecture on the United States' efforts to maintain its neutrality in the years after the Revolutionary War, she discussed the Quasi-War (1798-1800) and the ...

On this day in 1784, the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War and establishing the United States as a free sovereign nation.

Goals of the Treaty of Paris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Kathleen DuVal discussed the goals of the meeting in Paris following the American Revolution.

Not until January 14 did enough delegates reach Annapolis. The vote was taken, the Treaty of Paris was ratified, the Revolutionary War was officially over, and the United States of America was ...

On September 3, 1783, Franklin and the other peace commissioners signed the Treaty of Paris. The American Revolutionary War was over, and Britain officially recognized the independent United ...

Martha Teichner reports on the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which features a look at how the war changed life for African Americans and Native Americans ...

The first-ever treaty concluded by the fledgling U.S. and a Native American nation was the Treaty With the Delawares, endorsed by representatives of both factions in 1778.

A number of historains are reassessing the American Revolutionary War and looking at it as much more of a global conflict than previously portrayed, with one of the last battles between key ...