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

In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.

Our Founding Fathers were responsible for a lot more than the Declaration of Independence. Learn about their legacy of innovation.

Learn the basics about the Townshend Acts, a series of laws that intensified colonial rage toward the British crown in the 1760s.