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 England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

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 colonies in North America were now an ...

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, ...

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

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

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 ...

New Jersey has voted in blue in the past eight presidential elections. A look at the state's voting history and when it flipped from red to blue.

"Historians today say that without the Battle of Point Pleasant, the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War would have had 13 colonies that ended at the Allegheny Mountains, and they ...

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 ...