Bet You Didn't Know: Founding Fathers

After escaping slavery, Crispus Attucks finds himself confronting British soldiers at the forefront of the Boston Massacre.

Why does the American flag have 13 stripes? Get all the facts and figures on “Old Glory.”

Americans owe much of the U.S. financial system—including a unified national mint—to Alexander Hamilton.

To many in the Continental Congress, war was unthinkable. So why did they finally create this revolutionary document?