This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method ... Revolution that united all ...

Many founders wanted the President to be elected/selected by the U.S. Congress, a much smaller body of elites at that time.

Map of the Columbian Exchange between the New World and the ... and malaria that spread to mainland Central America and ...

For the data in the map, click here To win the White House, a candidate needs 270 out of 538 electoral college votes. Each state is worth a differing number of votes depending on the size of the ...

Canaday says she'll always remember the feelings she experienced last Friday. Colonial Williamsburg and the Let Freedom Ring ...

Beginning in 1775, leaders of the 11 colonies began issuing currency for the entire group. The first notes were authorized on ...

On Oct. 15, Daisy Atterbury ’10, lecturer of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico, released a ...

And ahead of his January inauguration, we hear what America and the world can expect from the first few months of a second Trump presidency.

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

Part of West Virginia’s northern border with Pennsylvania is a straight line that runs east and west along what is known as ...

Russia is open to hearing U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals on ending the war, an official said, as a Russian drone killed one person and wounded 13 in the Ukrainian port city of ...