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Historic brick building with a central clock tower and arched belfry, topped by a flagpole. The symmetrical façade features tall windows and a central doorway with steps. Leafless trees and neighboring buildings frame the scene under a clear blue sky.
"...the most debasing and detestable tyranny": Rhode Island Rebels Against the Empire
On the fourth day of May in 1776, the General Assembly of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations cast aside their colonial shackles and declared themselves independent. The declaration came in...
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Black-and-white illustration of armed colonial militia confronting British soldiers on a village green, with men firing muskets amid smoke and fallen bodies in the foreground, while organized troops advance near large colonial buildings, barns, and a church steeple in the background—depicting an early Revolutionary War skirmish.
"Huzzah!" The Semiquincentennial of American Independence is Upon Us
First Posted January 2026 In June 1776, Thomas Jefferson, sequestered in a Philadelphia boarding house, drafted the Declaration of Independence as an "expression of the American mind." Just weeks...
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