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

Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...

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 ...

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...