Discover the 13 American colonies, their establishment by Great Britain, diverse characteristics, and their journey to unity ...

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to separate the American colonies from ...

New York ranks No. 22 overall among U.S. states based on 71 metrics across eight categories. ... and it became one of the original 13 colonies. New York achieved statehood in 1788, ...

The 13 British colonies that would become the first of the United States — Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, ...

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.