One of the more significant street corners in American History is the intersection in Albany where Broadway meets Hudson Avenue. This is the site of the old Stadt Huys where in 1754 representatives from several colonies met to discuss the Albany Plan of Union. This group, known as the Albany Congress, consisted of a few famous…
The Iroquois Confederacy, or the Five Nations as the British called them, were five united tribes that as a confederacy were stronger than the sum of their parts. The Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga and Seneca were united through the efforts of Hiawatha. Hiawatha, an Onondaga adopted by the Mohawk, was born around 1525 and became…
The Albany Plan of Union Ben Franklin looked around the colonies and saw that they were each operating independently from each other. With the looming threat of the French and Indian War presenting a clear and present danger to all of the colonies, it made sense to form alliances for each of the colonies to…