Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

This perceptive study illuminates the complex relations between English settlers, Native people and Africans in the early ...

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.

Both are pervasive features of the old colonial order and of American history. They are part and parcel of colonialism’s racialized global and territorial segregation. Our colonial subjection ...

“I gravitated to colonial history because I was always interested ... widely considered the most significant find from colonial America. Some surprises were cahow bones, tropical fish skeletons ...

Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times ...

This book provides an incredibly informed legal history of contemporary Native America after the Second World War and the rise of Native American activism in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

A Texas county on Tuesday reversed a decision to reclassify a children’s book on Native American history as fiction after the ...