Led by George Washington, a small force of Virginia militiamen and their Native-American allies ambushes unsuspecting French soldiers, kicking off the Seven Years’ War (known in North America as the ...
Thousands poured down the Great Wagon Road, eager to start a new life in North America’s interior. Tensions were rising between England and the colonies, but new arrivals and American-born colonists ...
University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had ...
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...
When Americans think of the nation's slave past, they may picture blacks laboring on plantations in the South. But legal slavery existed in the North, too. Slavery thrived in the British North ...
As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...
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The Starving Time: Colonial America's Darkest Hour
Most people know that part of the reason why the first Thanksgiving was celebrated because the first winter in Plymouth did a ...
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