E Pluribus Unum — "Out of many, one." When the Continental Congress chose this Latin motto for the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, it did so to assert the fact that thirteen British ...

The bird, with its bright yellow beak, long wingspan and beady eyes, has appeared at the center of “The Great Seal” of the United States since 1782, much to Benjamin Franklin’s ire because ...

When tasked with developing the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, then-secretary of Congress Charles Thomson decided ...