When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

“Anti-colonialist” leftists see Mexico as America’s Palestine — and when illegal immigrants and their allies riot, it’s justified resistance they will rightly spread.

One cannot study the history of colonial America, especially Virginia, without realizing the significance of tobacco. In 1612, John Rolfe was the first in Jamestown to grow marketable tobacco after ...

This Perspective presents an overview of the archaeology of pluralistic colonies (approximately late 1500s–1800s) in North America. It complements the other special feature papers in this issue on ...

This is the way US history is typically taught in high schools and college survey courses, which usually present the country’s historical self-understanding and founding political identity in a rather ...

For most of us, colonial America is a time period vaguely remembered from history lessons in school as children. Important … Continue reading "20 Untrue Myths About Colonial America We All Believed" ...

Mercantilism is an economic policy that favors exports to increase a country's wealth. Read about the effects of British mercantilism on its American colonies.

The film explores the geography and history of Central America, a region that connects North and South America. It discusses the impact of Spanish colonization, highlighting the agricultural ...

Long before US President Donald Trump proposed placing Gaza under American control, US Christians had already established colonies in Jaffa and Jerusalem.

What Hygiene Was Really Like In Colonial America By Media Feed | Published 5 months ago In the 17th and 18th centuries, several colonies of the British Empire were founded on the East Coast of what is ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the ...