V isitors walking Boston’s Freedom Trail pass familiar landmarks — Beacon Hill, the Old North Church, King’s Chapel, and the ...

European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...

Descendants of four Freedom Colonies strive to preserve the legacy of their communities. After the Civil War, four million formerly enslaved people were set free, but most had no place to go. Wanting ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

In colonial America, even a short journey could turn deadly. Roads were little more than muddy trails, rivers were unpredictable, and disease, bandits, and exposure were constant threats. A trip that ...

As this time rolls around each year, my mind can’t help but wander back through time imagining early Thanksgiving-esque meals and colonial life in general. I find history fascinating and, when ...