Aside from the usually apocryphal stories of Pocahontas and the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving, most Americans draw a blank about their country’s colonial ... The 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ...

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

The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of another map made in 1418. If true, it could imply Chinese mariners discovered and mapped America decades ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for ...