Let the arguments begin. Starting with Saturday’s anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the United States will ...

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.

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

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 ...

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress, today, George III is “remembered as the man who lost America. Really, Parliament ...

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

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

With the Revolutionary War under way, these pioneers were vulnerable to attack from both British and Native American forces.

(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 ...