Sometimes its kind of tough to bring an image to life through an audio podcast, but we thought it was important enough that you needed to see it somehow. Its oftentimes hard for us to understand jus

Even though he was President of the Second Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 (whoopsspoiler alert), its entirely possible that John Hancock would be just o

New Jersey has been pretty quiet since the Lexington and Concord fighting took place. But no more: today they came backwith a vengeance!

Up until now, New Hampshire has been rather quiet when it came to resisting British rule. But today was the day that Live Free or Die was more than a motto for their license plates, which had yet to

Like so many people who lived in upstate New York in the Revolutionary era, David Woods was an immigrant from Ireland when he came over with his family in 1775. New York was unusual compared to the ot

When the folks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, heard about the events at Lexington and Concord a month earlier, they were quite incensed. So much so that they decided they were going to declare

Baltimore has a lot of historic pride in its street names. Nearly all of them can be traced back to an historic figure or event: Key Highway, named after Francis Scott Key. (Also the Key Bridge, but w

People seem to have an inherent need to excuse their own unfortunate behaviors. One of the most common is to point to someone else breaking a rule and making it about them. Or, in the case of most of

Is it just me or does Daniel LeRoy look a lot like actor Richard Kind? Daniel LeRoy was born in upstate New York and started to put together a pretty good settlement, but an unfortunate choice on his

While the Declaration of Independence was still about 15 months away, a small community in the far western reaches of Pennsylvania decided not to wait around for it to happen, and they took matters in