What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Corporate greed, dreadful diplomacy, and the wrath of Mother Nature. Also, we don’t know.

The latest volume in the series of The Story of the Nations" is a creditable and valuable work. The two volumes have been prepared for the purpose of telling the story of the American Colonies in ...

The Thirteen Colonies were built by a diverse workforce including skilled laborers, indentured servants, enslaved people, and criminals, in stark contrast to modern labor practices.

CAMBRIDGE — The subjects of the 44 photographs in Wendel A. White’s “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” range in date from the 1700s to early in this century. The show runs at Harvard’s ...