Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

V isitors walking Boston’s Freedom Trail pass familiar landmarks — Beacon Hill, the Old North Church, King’s Chapel, and the ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

Liberia was founded in the 1820s as part of the American "colonization" movement, which sought to resettle free Black Americans on the African continent. English is the official language of Liberia.

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...