‘The Shot Heard Round the World’: How Subjects Became Citizens at Lexington and Concord
On a fateful day in April 1775, farmers, tradesmen, laborers, and mariners—Americans of all stripes—came together at the Battles of…
How the United States Navy Began with a Fishing Boat
The United States Navy—today recognized as the most powerful navy in the world—had very humble beginnings as a single fishing…