No need to grab a map, it's time to learn the states in order of statehood. On Dec. 7, 1787 , Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, according to the Census Bureau.

And, a bonus: Vermont, which was not one of the 13 colonies, is named because, after seeing the Green Mountains, Samuel de Champlain referred to it as "Verd Mont" (green mountains) on a map in his ...

When the streets were laid out in the original Village of Black Rock grid, they were named in honor of the 13 original colonies. That section still exists today, along the Niagara Street corridor ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is opening an exhibit of rarely displayed maps that provide a blueprint of the transformation of the original 13 colonies into the United States of America.

All other colonies that wished to join the nascent nation would have to get approval from 9 of the U.S.’s 13 states. Canada, of course, never took the U.S. up on its offer. Still, the proposal ...

Photographer Wendel White created Manifest: Thirteen Colonies as a personal reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections.