The 13 Original colonies in 1774 by McConnell Map Co., 1919. Source: Library of Congress Old North Church in Boston, symbol of early American religion and site of Paul Revere’s legendary warning ...

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 ...

And, a bonus: Vermont, which was not one of the 13 colonies, is named because, after seeing the Green Mountains, Samuel de Champlain referred to it as "Verd Mont" (green mountains) on a map in his ...

Students will be introduced to the 13 colonies. They’ll compare and contrast how people dressed in colonial times to how people dress today and spend time looking at maps. Students will be ...

Here’s your exclusive first look at a new star-map of Battlestar Galactica’s Twelve Colonies, designed by writer ... then there are 13 signs. After our sun skims the top of Scorpius, 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is opening an exhibit of rarely displayed maps that provide a blueprint of the transformation of the original 13 colonies into the United States of America.