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 ...

A sudden roar broke the muggy stillness, making me jump. A young woman squatting in a shallow trench reassured me. “No worries,” she said, gesturing with a trowel into a nearby thicket. “Our tools ...

This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method of building log cabins, which ...

In the chaos following the American Revolutionary War, a pair of bandits known as the Harpe Brothers went on a vicious ...

and were even able to acquire exotic species from time to time that made their way through the shipping lines to North ...

Often overshadowed by its Boston counterpart, The Yorktown Tea Party took place 250 years ago, one in a series of tea parties ...

Romo succeeds former archaeology director Dave Givens, who is now as the director of geophysics at Goodwin & Associates Inc.

from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south. But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made ...