A 1755 map of the Great Lake region by John Mitchell ... were only the first wave of hundreds of thousands moving to the 13 colonies over the next 150 years, Michigan was still very much a ...

According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2.5 million people living in the thirteen colonies in July 1776 compared to its estimate of 330 million people living in America now.

This designation replaced the term “United Colonies,” then in general use. Beginning in March 1776, a series of articles ... “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States ...

More than forty years after 1776, an 83-year-old John Adams wanted Americans to know just how astounding it was that America declared independence. Getting all thirteen colonies to reach this same ...

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 ...

July 4 marks the anniversary of when Congress, comprised of delegates from the United States' original 13 colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The document declared ...

On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally changed the name of their new nation to the “United States of America,” rather than the “United Colonies,” which was in regular use at ...

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted a document proclaiming that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, no longer regarded themselves ...