The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

America 250 celebration with Morgan Magnuson, colonial reenactor. When: 10 a.m. Friday, then every third Friday of 2026.

The 250th anniversary is keyed to the Declaration of Independence, ratified on July 4, 1776. Years of tension between the ...

The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly ...

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were newcomers from Germany, Ulster, France, etc. What made them immigrants?

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

America’s year of independence, 1776, began with virtually all of those living in Britain’s 13 North American colonies content to remain under royal rule so long as they could enjoy the basic rights ...