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 the day in 1783, the United States and Great Britain signed a formal peace treaty in Paris, putting the Revolutionary War behind them.

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 ...

The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, officially ended the Revolutionary War. With this treaty, the French and British recognized the United States as an independent nation with its ...

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 ...