Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Upland South region of the United States. It is known as the “Bluegrass State”, a nickname based on Kentucky bluegrass, a species of grass found in many of its pastures, which has supported the thoroughbred horse industry in the…
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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The tribe’s name is often said to mean “people of the (south) wind” although this was probably not the…
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Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. In colonial times, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana and Spanish Louisiana; its state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart…
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Indiana is a state in the Midwestern United States. Before becoming a territory, various indigenous peoples inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state’s northernmost tier was settled primarily…
View More United States of America: IndianaIdaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. For thousands of years Idaho has been inhabited by Native American peoples. In the early 19th century, Idaho was considered part of the Oregon Country, an area disputed between the United States and the British Empire. It…
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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Colony of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina south to Spanish Florida and west to French Louisiana at the Mississippi River. Founded in 1733 as a British colony,…
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Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state takes its name from the nearby Delaware River named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia’s first colonial governor. Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century,…
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word “Connecticut” is derived from various anglicized spellings of “Quononoquett (Conanicut),” a Mohegan-Pequot word for “long tidal river”. Connecticut’s first European settlers…
View More United States of America: ConnecticutColorado is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. The word “Colorado” comes from the Spanish word for “colored red.” The region has been inhabited by Native Americans for more than 13,000 years, with the Lindenmeier Site containing artifacts dating from approximately 9200 BCE to…
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Arizona is a state in the Western United States. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in…
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