Virginia: The first of the 13 American colonies, it grew wealthy from tobacco farming, thanks in part to labor from indentured servants and later enslaved people. Maryland: Founded by Lord ...

The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...

2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so ... In 2006, 12 men were killed in a methane gas explosion in ...

The Attorney General's Office of the State of Sonora (FGJE) insured 19 people after several searches in different municipalities of the entity. The actions were carried out in conjunction with the ...