From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

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Educational opportunities were much sparser in the rural South. The New England Primer was the first and most popular primer designed to teach reading in the colonies. The Puritans valued education, ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

Delegates from nine of the 13 colonies met in New York in October 1765 to form the Stamp Act Congress. William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, John Rutledge of South ...

Timed with the spread of its first-party mapping data, Apple is giving the Maps app a big upgrade in iOS 13 that represents the company’s biggest push yet to overtake Google Maps as the world’s most ...

Rummaging through one of biggest, most valuable datasets not in government hands, we discovered some fascinating links ...

Here is a map of all mpox cases ... in the last few months the United States has provided an additional $17m (£13.1m ) to support clade I mpox preparedness and response efforts in Central ...