“The American Revolution” is a six-part series starting Sunday, Nov. 16, on PBS.

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

Robert G. Parkinson is associate professor of history at Binghamton University and the author of Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence. Slavery and ...

The 13 colonies were all part of the British Empire, but they had many differences, from the colonists' views on religious freedom to how they educated their children. Federal judge rules Trump ...

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - While we celebrate this independence day, it is important to know Georgia’s part in America’s founding. 249 years ago, Georgia was among the original 13 colonies to declare ...

"Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen ...

CAMBRIDGE — The subjects of the 44 photographs in Wendel A. White’s “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” range in date from the 1700s to early in this century. The show runs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of ...