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

Backcountry colonists in Camden and Long Bluff, South Carolina helped win the American Revolutionary War by declaring their ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived. Potentially, Denmark could have expanded into Newfoundland and the ...

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

The Iroquois were staunch British allies. Their rivals, the Huron and the Algonquin, allied themselves with the French.

Under the Electoral College system, states operate on a winner-takes-all basis, allowing a candidate to win all of the ...

One of the original 13 colonies, New Jersey has participated in every presidential election. Let's take a look at how the Garden State has voted in presidential elections throughout the last several ...

Make Sheffield the start of something special. When you study here you get one of the best student experiences in the UK. At Sheffield, you’ll join a supportive community of scholars who share your ...

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

Without it, the whole structure collapses. Pennsylvania served a similar function among the original thirteen colonies, linking the North and South and providing political stability that helped keep ...

The United States does not have a state religion and does not force religion of any kind onto the people living here.

It took over a century for the US electoral map to geographically assume the form that we associate with it today. A look at ...