The Recorder is featuring weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the ...

In 1765, the British Parliament passed An Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, commonly called "The Stamp Act of 1765." Parliament had ...

In last week's puzzle, host Liane Hansen confused the Stamp Act with the tax on tea. She talks with historian David Hackett Fischer, who explains the origins of the British-imposed taxes on the ...

The Stamp Act defiance placard will be sold alongside items like the earliest record of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, which is expected to realize between $600,000 and $800,000.