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

Wanting to give his men a desperately needed respite, to recognize their heritage, and to show unity with the courageous ...

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

The work of a shy, studious bachelor in his early 50s, the book ran to almost 1,100 pages. It was “An Inquiry into the Nature ...

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.

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 ...

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.

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

American Primeval, Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops, crude trappers, and bloodthirsty Natives. Think Under the Banner of ...