“She was a person way ahead of her time,” Kanaga’s friend and fellow photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) once said of her ...

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Myth: There were 13 original colonies. Yes, there are 13 stripes on the flag representing them, but technically there were only 12 colonies that rebelled against British rule in 1775. Delaware was ...

The meaning and application of due process has become a crucial issue in the US, most often with respect to the Trump ...

1619 marks a key moment in American and African-American history. This is why it matters — and why it's become controversial. Credit: Mashable composite; Getty Images / mikroman6 We look to ...

European Printmakers Had No Idea What Colonial American Cities Looked Like, So They Just Made Stuff Up To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly ...

George never regained his grasp on the American colonies. Instead, his former subjects burned his effigy and toppled a statue of the king in New York.

At the very least, 1619 represented a landmark in the long history of slavery in European colonies, and the beginning stages of what would become the institution of slavery in America. The New ...

The first known slave rebellion in one of England’s American colonies took place in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1663, 44 years after the first slaves arrived in the British colony.

The king’s gardener presenting Charles II with a pineapple. | Heritage Images/GettyImages In the American colonies in the 1700s, pineapples were no less revered.

Either the American colonies must elect representatives to the Parliament at Westminster ; or else the right of levying taxes must be left where it already resided, in their own legislative bodies.