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

With each passing year, the crucial role played by post-Emancipation freedom colonies in Texas history becomes clearer. In our state, these independent communities of landowning people who had been ...

As the 17th century dawned in Europe, two powerful countries pushed west across the ocean on a search for new lands to exploit and settle. Their collision in the New World would decide the future of ...

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded approximately 11 times, and its population has surged 135 times. It became the ...

In the year 1750, the prosperous Oyster Bay merchant Samuel Townsend sent out his sloop Solomon under Capt. John Jones on a voyage to the Virgin Islands. The single-masted ship was loaded with cargo: ...

A world to take -- England stakes a claim -- the land they found -- Atlantic foothold -- Religious havens -- The people who came -- Competition for colonies -- Burdens and blessings -- The settlers ...

While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...