But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made these colonies tick. Imagine the 1600s: The British ...

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

England's victory establishes it as the dominant colonial power in North America. June-July: Adams publishes his first newspaper pieces. Under the pseudonym "Humphrey Ploughjogger," he lampoons ...

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 ...

A fascinating new photography project takes viewers on a poignant journey through African American material culture, using objects found in the libraries, museums, and archives of the original ...

By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen colonies to develop in British America. The British government fought a number of wars to protect and expand these colonies, and as a result ...