1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

A rich knight likely paid a handsome sum to import the ornately carved monument, despite brutal conditions in the Jamestown ...

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. America has had two great ages of exploration. The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas ...

Arizona, California, Florida, Maine and New Hampshire experienced their warmest June-August periods on record.

No matter where you turned, you couldn’t ignore reality. America was the epicenter of a racial reckoning. Within days, people joined more than 10,000 demonstrations nationwide and a movement to ...

USA TODAY recently visited six small towns, all named Hope. For this episode, Dana Taylor traveled to the most diverse in the group: Hope, Arkansas.

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

The United States may have been at the top of the Olympic leaderboard, but it is far from the top of the world happiness rankings although, as a Newsweek world map shows, some American age groups ...

The figures are adjusted for seasonal swings but not inflation. It’s an encouraging sign for America’s economy, since consumer spending represents two-thirds of US economic output. Retail ...

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This is not a job for an “America alone.” It is a job for “America and friends.” That is why the choice in this election for me is also clear. Do you want Donald Trump — whose two bumper ...

Or a New York slice in New Haven, Conn. [The best pizza in America, region by region] To serve the pizza-craving public, we analyzed 7.5 million Yelp reviews and developed a formula to identify ...