From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the United States. The Dutch and Swedish governments would have ruled the most significant cities that were ...

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

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

The story of the American Revolution as traditionally recounted is the saga of the thirteen colonies fighting their colonial ruler, Britain, for independence. But an equally compelling part of the ...

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 ...

The Electoral College, a compromise between the founders of the Constitution, has allowed states to select their own electors ...

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.

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 ...

Donald Trump wins the Presidential Election in the key swing state of North Carolina, picking up the 16 Electoral College ...

Map of the Columbian Exchange between the New World and the ... and indigo plantations of the southern Atlantic coast from ...

Nov. 13, 2023. "The wood stork is the only species of stork that breeds in the U.S.," FWC says. "Wood storks are very social ...