We have seen that the chief aim of the Confederation of 1781, was to perpetuate a Union formed and consolidated before the existence of any distinct State organizations or State Constitutions: and ...

On this day in 1781, the Articles of Confederation, our first constitution, became the official law of the land. It didn’t last a decade, however, for several reasons. articles-of-confederation The ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not the United States’ initial president. Before the Mount Vernon resident became ...

Michigan classrooms have a new resource to use when students learn about the history and contributions of Indigenous people in the state. The Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments has ...

In 1789, the United States officially adopted the Constitution as we know it today, and transitioned from one form of government under the Articles of Confederation to another. The American president ...

IMPOSSIBLE as Congress found it, during the Revolutionary War, to fill the quotas of the army, the task of raising a revenue by requisitions upon the States was even more discouraging. Every State had ...

Israeli and Palestinian public figures have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts. The ...

Jerusalem — Israeli and Palestinian public figures have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian public figures have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian public figures have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a ...