2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so ... in a coal mine in West Virginia's Upshur County.

Centralization was pervasive in colonial Iberian America ... According to Robert Harvey, the American experiment was so successful: “The thirteen colonies, far from behaving as subordinate to British ...

Despite its success, the colony of Jamestown experienced a tumultuous relationship with its Indigenous neighbors. Jamestown is an excellent example of how early American colonies experienced ...

They were not the first colonial ... original thirteen colonies were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia ...

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era ...

The 1830s had seen a push for colonial ... of Virginia in the USA. Spain built its empire in the 1500s. It controlled 80 per cent of the world’s silver because it conquered several colonies ...

[7] Some colonies were very strict in their use of the death penalty, while others were less so. In Massachusetts Bay Colony the ... offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky passed ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed ... Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought ...

Fairfax was born in England but later moved to Virginia to claim his vast inheritance, becoming the only British peer to reside in the American colonies ... like in the pre-colonial era ...

In June 2021, following the “mass grave” claims, the Prince Edward County Council voted 13 to one to remove the ... developed from a string of European colonies populated by European settlers.

Year-round, Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown present gallery exhibits, rare artifacts and ...

Archaeologist Michael Clem with Department of Historic Resources locates a grave in the Blick Cemetery which has two stone markers in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Thirteen-year-old Ginger standing ...