The original 13 colonies were divided into three distinct regions confined by French and Spanish territories to the north and south respectively. The northernmost New England colonies of ...

and this is the first time that an ambitious effort has been made to give separately the record of the thirteen colonies from the time each was settled to the Declaration of Independence.

Q: Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still named after British nobility? Dan Vesco | Haymarket, Virginia It’s hard to say for sure why specific places weren’t ...

July 4 marks the anniversary of when Congress, comprised of delegates from the United States' original 13 colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The document declared ...

As one of the original 13 colonies, Connecticut has an interesting founding story, from being the first state to write a constitution to being the fifth state to join the United States. In fact, ...

My daughter was assigned to do a report on Maryland as one of the original 13 colonies for social studies. That got me thinking about attempts to create a 14th colony in the 1770s. So much ...