Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire ...

While preparing her 1992 book, Africans in Colonial America, Hall discovered court documents that indicated where enslaved Africans said they came from. The information was overlooked for more ...

As Lyons says, it sounds familiar, right? The modern colonial authorities in America are not part of a foreign force but the arrogant and out-of-touch leftists, who punish and suppress dissent and ...

These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...

During a recent family trip to the Historic Triangle, Ethan got to meet his superhero up close in Colonial Williamsburg ... permanent English settlement in America, visitors can watch as ...

Bargain hunters picked over what was left at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remaining stores, part of a vast empire that was ...

“Virginia’s history is America’s story,” Wilson says. “We have hundreds and hundreds of sites that are tied directly to the Revolutionary War, the founding of our nation, the Colonial period. But even ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal.

Beneath the asphalt parking lot of America's largest living history museum, gravesites linked to one of the nation's oldest Black churches remained hidden for decades until last year ...

He was a Founding Father. His son sided with the British. He was the last king of America. Here’s how he lost the colonies. He was the last king of America. Here’s how he lost the colonies.