On August 21, 1787, the Convention considered this proposal ... “monies borrowed and debts contracted by” the old Continental Congress. Nor was this the only support.

Late in 1787, he visited Thomas Jefferson in Paris ... Trumbull spent four years seeking out the surviving members of the Continental Congress. Thirty-six of the forty-seven figures in The ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...