unanimously elected John Hanson their nation's first president, the highest position in the land, as nationhood was thus completed and the Second Continental Congress passed into history. John Hanson ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress ... managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up ...

was elected president of the Congress on the first day. Carpenters’ Hall, where the First Continental Congress gathered to plan, bicker and make history. Library of Congress Though leaders ...

This Thursday is the 2025 National Day of Prayer, a tradition as old as the U.S. itself. Here's what to know about the day ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...