July 4, 2012— -- intro: Independence Day is not all barbecue and fireworks. So we pause here for a bit of history, with the 13 original colonies in mind (in the order of their founding ...

But New York was the site of the last shots of the Revolutionary War. On “Evacuation Day,” Nov. 26, 1783, the last British troops in America left their station in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is opening an exhibit of rarely displayed maps that provide a blueprint of the transformation of the original 13 colonies into the United States of America.

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to separate the American colonies from ...

He vividly illustrates how New York allowed Catholics to live and worship freely, but that the current issue of spiritual “Nones” was as applicable in the 17th century as it is now.

The original 13 colonies entered the Union from 1787 to 1790, and the remaining 37 were continuously admitted as late as 1959. ... New York: July 26, 1788; North Carolina: Nov. 21, 1789; ...