New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

This class explores societal groups across the North American continent from 1550 ... alongside the emergence of African slavery in North America. The semester concludes with the escalating colonial ...

slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the British North American colonies, and not just in the plantation economy of the South. While many southerners found slavery morally repugnant ...

In the chaos following the American Revolutionary War, a pair of bandits known as the Harpe Brothers went on a vicious ...

This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method of building log cabins, which ...

PHOTOGRAPHED WITH PERMISSION OF THE CROATOAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Throughout colonial North America, most of the English captured by Indians or who deserted refused to return, even if given the ...

and were even able to acquire exotic species from time to time that made their way through the shipping lines to North ...

Romo succeeds former archaeology director Dave Givens, who is now as the director of geophysics at Goodwin & Associates Inc.

Often overshadowed by its Boston counterpart, The Yorktown Tea Party took place 250 years ago, one in a series of tea parties ...