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Southern United States
- Southern United StatesThe Southern United States goes by many names. Dixie, Dixieland, the Southland, the American South, or simply the South.
- Indian TerritoryThe Royal Proclamation of 1763 set aside land for Native American tribes in British North America. This territory remained active until the Treaty of Paris…
- AlabamaAlabama sits at a crossroads of American history that few states can match. Its oldest city, Mobile, was founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital…
- KentuckyKentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sits landlocked in the Southeastern United States with the Ohio River tracing its entire northern edge.
- MississippiMississippi sits at the southern edge of the American interior, a state whose name comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "great river." That river defines its…
- West VirginiaWest Virginia came into existence not through gradual settlement or territorial promotion, but through an act of wartime defiance.
- ArkansasArkansas is a landlocked state whose very name carries a centuries-old argument. In 1881, the state legislature had to pass a formal resolution to settle a…
- TexasTexas stretches across 268,596 square miles of the southern United States, a territory so vast that it would rank as the 39th-largest country on earth if it…
- TennesseeTennessee sits at the crossroads of three distinct American worlds. From the fog-wrapped peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the east, across the…
- Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., is not part of any state, and it is not a state itself. It belongs to the United States Congress, which holds exclusive jurisdiction over…
- LouisianaLouisiana sits at one of the most consequential crossroads in North America, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico.
- North CarolinaNorth Carolina sits at a crossroads that has shaped American history at almost every turn. On the 12th of April 1776, the colony's Provincial Congress issued…
- OklahomaOklahoma gets its name from two Choctaw words: okla, meaning 'people', and humma, meaning 'red'. Choctaw Nation Chief Allen Wright proposed that name in…
- South CarolinaSouth Carolina sits at a crossing point that has shaped centuries of American history. On the 12th of April, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire on Union…
- DelawareDelaware ratified the United States Constitution on the 7th of December 1787, becoming the first state in the union and earning the nickname it has carried…
- Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia, the American state that calls itself the Peach State, holds a peculiar distinction: it is simultaneously the 24th-largest state by area and the…
- MarylandMaryland sits at a crossroads that no other state occupies. It is the only state that simultaneously borders the nation's capital, touches the Atlantic…
- FloridaFlorida juts into the Atlantic world like no other piece of the United States. It is the only state that shares a border with both the Gulf of Mexico and the…
- VirginiaIn 1607, the London Company established Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in North America. This event marked a turning point for the…