The Thirteen Colonies were built by a diverse workforce including skilled laborers, indentured servants, enslaved people, and criminals, in stark contrast to modern labor practices. Trump ...

The original 13 colonies were divided into three distinct regions confined by French and Spanish territories to the north and south respectively. The northernmost New England colonies of ...

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.

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

Still, for people living in the 13 colonies—free or enslaved—the American Revolution changed life much less fundamentally. David K. Allison, curator emeritus, National Museum of American ...

Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book ... Main, Gloria Lund (1982). Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. Princeton University ...

Back in my footloose, aka unemployed, years in the ’70s and ’80s, I spent some time kicking around the colonies ... diem than at any other time in my life. Meanwhile I had my share of ...

While Harris offered a glimpse of daily life in the colonies, she also offered her views on the politicians of the day. In 1860, prominent politician John A. Macdonald and other members of the ...