The Articles were weak by design and left Congress unable to pay soldiers in the Continental Army. It took the Continental Congress 526 days to fashion the Articles of Confederation and another 39 ...

The Continental Congress meets to debate and adopt the Articles of Confederation. The Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia to debate the Articles of Confederation: the document that will ...

Reading is one of the main ways to stay informed and entertained in an increasingly busy world to live in. Consider that you have used your computer to click on the screen and are now reading an ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not the United States’ initial president. Before the Mount Vernon resident became ...