Before the United States

There Were Neither United Nor States Most Americans know the date.July 4, 1776.Far fewer know what actually existed on that day.Many Americans imagine Independence Day as the birth of a nation. They picture a people declaring themselves free and transforming thirteen colonies into the United States.There is only one problem.In 1776, there was no United States.More surprisingly, the ancestors of modern Americans would not have called themselves Americans in the way the word is understood […]

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