Dan Hazard, Chairman of USA250-OC’s Advisory Leadership Team, recently participated in the annual French in Newport living-history day on July 12, commemorating the Franco-American alliance which led to the surrender by the British to American and French forces at...
Arlo Fravien, 13, an eighth-grade student at Walton Intermediate School in Garden Grove, has won the competition to represent California in the National Civics Bee in Washington, D. C. in November. Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the...
One of the most recognized, iconic paintings of the American founding is prominently displayed in the rotunda of the United States Capitol. Simply and appropriately called Declaration of Independence, it is one of eight oil-on-canvas paintings measuring 12 by 18...
For more than a hundred fifty years, school children have been introduced to birth of the United States by the thrilling verses penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Listen my children and you shall here of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of...
Meeting in the Pennsylvania State House on June 14, 1775, just two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress voted to create a Continental Army to coordinate the military response of thirteen British colonies to...
