Many founders wanted the President to be elected/selected by the U.S. Congress, a much smaller body of elites at that time.

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

Freeman (Thirteen Colonies) During the American colonial period a freeman was a person who was not a slave. The term originated in 12th-century Europe.

Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. German influence is still evident in some of them, in some surprising ways.

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived. Potentially, Denmark could have expanded into Newfoundland and the ...

Dozens of former British colonies are challenging their old colonial rulers to make amends for slavery and other injustices suffered under the British Empire. The idea of reparations was floated at ...

Without it, the whole structure collapses. Pennsylvania served a similar function among the original thirteen colonies, linking the North and South and providing political stability that helped keep ...

You can see a detailed breakdown of those results in the map below. See also maps of the House and Senate races. Contact us at [email protected] ...

FISH-EATING spiders the size of human hands are on the loose in Britain - here's a map revealing where colonies are lurking. Thousands of Fen raft spiders are set to invade the UK after the ...

President-elect Donald Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, holds a lead of about 3.5 million votes nationwide as of Monday, Nov. 11 — but it's not ...