Events from the year 1782 in the United States President of the Confederation Congress: John Hanson (until November 4), Elias Boudinot (starting November...

independence from the British Empire, and after victory in the Revolutionary War combined to form the United States of America. The American Revolution...

Great Seal of the United States on June 20, 1782, with a bald eagle in the center, was adopted by the Continental Congress on June 20, 1782. Bruce E. Beans...

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral...

The first table below charts the age of each president of the United States at the time of their presidential inauguration (first inauguration if elected...

The Second Siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...

This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...

punishment for crime is still legal in the United States. By the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the status of enslaved people had been...

Britain, played a role in the independence of the United States. Spain declared war on Britain as an ally of France, itself an ally of the American colonies...