You may know all the states in alphabetical order, but do you know them in order of statehood? The original 13 colonies entered the Union from 1787 to 1790, and the remaining 37 were continuously ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 4, 2012 -- intro: Independence Day is not all barbecue and fireworks. So we pause here for a bit of history, with the 13 original colonies in mind (in the order of their founding).

When the streets were laid out in the original Village of Black Rock grid, they were named in honor of the 13 original colonies. That section still exists today, along the Niagara Street corridor ...

After American Independence, many of the 13 Colonies claimed additional territories into the West. As they let go of their claims, in favour of the Federal Government, many new states were created ...

Photographer Wendel White created Manifest: Thirteen Colonies as a personal reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections.

The number of such colonies could well exceed 10,000 as illegal colonies were regularized on four occasions since 1998, when rule 15 (a) was inserted by the erstwhile Digvijaya Singh government ...

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 ...

On Jan. 2, 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union.