The story of these thirteen colonies is a good tonic and a good corrective. The man who thinks all the good lies behind us in the simple and democratic early days of the nation may learn something ...

All other colonies that wished to join the nascent nation would have to get approval from 9 of the U.S.’s 13 states ... back out of the footnotes. A map of British America showing the original ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — 249 years ago Sunday, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to formally declare its independence from Great Britain. On May 4, 1776, delegates gathered ...

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this isn’t exactly the best way to describe the Declaration of Independence for one simple reason. The declaration is essentially a document formally announcing the separation of the Thirteen Colonies ...

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Though pirates are perhaps more closely associated in popular culture with European sailors in Central America, the 13 Colonies and her ports were not bereft of swashbucklers and privateers.

But the President appears to have forgotten that the Declaration of Independence, an actual act of high treason against Britain and King George III, is a literal declaration of the 13 colonies’ ...

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