But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made these colonies tick. Imagine the 1600s: The British ...

American ant colonies are more than just groups of insects—they function as superorganisms, operating with a level of ...

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 ...

slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the British North American colonies, and not just in the plantation economy of the South. While many southerners found slavery morally repugnant ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

After all, this was one of the first English settlements in the American colonies, founded in 1630. And 140 years later, when parliament back home tried to impose a tea tax and a trading monopoly ...

who were graduates of American colonial colleges. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 ...

For today's installment of "20,000 Years of Austin History in 20 Minutes," I pulled fragments from two stories found in the American-Statesman archives. On freedom colonies: "Clarksville and ...