Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Q: Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still named after British nobility? Dan Vesco | Haymarket, Virginia It’s hard to say for sure why specific places weren’t ...

It began after Patrick Henry convinced the conservative tobacco planters of Virginia—the largest, most populous and richest of the Thirteen Colonies—to organize a militia. That decision put ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...