It took over a century for the US electoral map to geographically assume the form that we associate with it today. A look at ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from ... "King George can read that without spectacles!" Today, the original copy of the Declaration is housed in the National ...

On a map, you see Maine to the right of New Hampshire and Vermont ... This was nearly six months before the Continental Congress signed the declaration. One of the original 13 colonies, New Hampshire ...

The Fort Gower Resolves, signed by soldiers in November 250 years ago, was one of the first documents to express support for American independence.

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to ...

The large peninsula we now call Alaska was first visited by human explorers more ... long before it had a place on the Russian map. Russian fur hunters and traders in Siberia had heard for ...

When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies. New York achieved statehood in 1788, with the adoption of the U.S ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...

big-money interests that dominated politics in the Atlantic states that emerged from the original 13 colonies. They also wanted no part of the authoritarianism that dominated the political ...

Under the Electoral College system, states operate on a winner-takes-all basis, allowing a candidate to win all of the ...

Descendants of New Jersey’s original inhabitants ... “There was supposed to be a 14th state [after the 13 colonies achieved ...

International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled the first tranche of films selected for its 54th edition, which runs Jan. 30 – Feb. 9. These 13 titles, which will play in the Bright Future or ...