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 ...

From the 1650s to 1776, parts of the Americas and coastal regions of West Africa were under British authority and connected ...

Linda Coombs’ striking book “Colonization and the Wampanoag Story” raises imperative questions about how cultural information ...

“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 ...

from colonial times to the present, have shaped and redefined American identity, and how – despite the gap between civic ideals and reality – national ligaments have remained remarkably strong. A ...

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 ...

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

The course surveys major developments in the economic history of North America between 1600 and 2000. Colonial development; the American Revolution; Early North American Industry; Slavery; Westward ...