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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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

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 ...