The Dutch established a lasting colony in South America that is today the country of Suriname ... There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the United ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

Many Americans don't want to hear it, but the Electoral College is a uniquely damaging system that wildly distorts the will of the voter, yields crazy outcomes and suppresses participation.

what did the America Donald Trump desired to look like in 1724? It wasn’t a country yet, coming 52 years before the ...

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery ... On the eve of the American Revolution slavery was legal in each of the thirteen colonies -- flourishing not just in the South but ...

In response, 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to a Continental ... in the History of America." For Adams and his fellow Americans, that new history was just beginning.

Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this as part of the American experience in his Democracy in America in the 1830s. During the ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

Not much separates Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump, both driven by the wild-eyed pursuit of an elusive dream they believe ...

Some of you are undoubtedly heartbroken over the results of the presidential election. Some of you are buoyant with hope and ...

A ship carried crates of bananas that concealed identically designed boxes containing the cocaine, police said.