See where New Jersey stood 250 years ago as the Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... encouraging it to expand the British slave trade. In 1698, the English Parliament ruled that ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor ... annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

As the British Empire expanded around the globe ... barely earning a footnote in many chronicles of American colonization. “When historians have thought about Bermuda, it’s as a curiosity ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

The discovery provides tangible evidence of a British military presence in Florida during their brief occupation from 1763 to 1783.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

(THE CONVERSATION) Patriots’ Day, a commemoration of the battles of Lexington and Concord – the first confrontations of the American Revolution – holds historical value as a symbol of American ...

When colonial-era reenactors gather in June to mark the 250th anniversary of one of the American Revolution’s most ...

NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome territory. Now the American Colonial Army faces what seems... Read More ...