Staying at inns allowed Washington to examine the state of the infrastructure for traveling in the new federal Republic. The only problem was, he hated it.

Why did Benjamin Franklin become an American patriot when he was such a loyal son of the Crown for so long?

The Stamp Act of 1765, which inspired the “taxation without representation” cry, imposed taxes that outraged specific groups of people.

The Currency Act of 1764 returned the restrictions of 1751: banning colonists from printing their own legal tender bills.

Frederick Taylor's scientific management theory has some holes in it.