Through boycotts and burning, women in Wilmington and Edenton took a stand in 1774 against England's taxation without ...

Thousands poured down the Great Wagon Road, eager to start a new life in North America’s interior. Tensions were rising between England and the colonies, but new arrivals and American-born colonists ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had ...

European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

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

Led by George Washington, a small force of Virginia militiamen and their Native-American allies ambushes unsuspecting French soldiers, kicking off the Seven Years’ War (known in North America as the ...

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As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...

America’s year of independence, 1776, began with virtually all of those living in Britain’s 13 North American colonies content to remain under royal rule so long as they could enjoy the basic rights ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...