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In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...
In colonial India, that trust was deliberately fabricated ... The exhibition ‘Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in the Indo-British Textile’ at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), ...
This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
But finds from the British colonial era are especially rare—making ... of the seven redoubts mentioned in 18th-century British maps. As excavation work continues, researchers hope to define ...
These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ...
Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...
The city of St. Augustine — with its centuries-old buildings and massive stone fort — is an enduring reminder of Spain’s storied history in Florida, going back generations before the United States ...
City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program volunteers, from left, Don Roberts, Janet Fittipaldi, David Kasriel and Bob Maerz work to screen soil to recover artifacts from the 1781 British Redoubt ...
That’s the “logo map” of the country ... They also attacked the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Philippines was the largest U.S. colony when Japan invaded in ...
A rare glimpse into American history has been unearthed: a never-before-seen British military outpost has surfaced on the Florida coast. Archaeologists in St. Augustine on the Northeast coast of ...
The Commonwealth is primarily comprised of former British colonies or dependencies, born out of the breakup of the British Empire in the mid-20th century. Joining such a group could be seen as a ...
History will come alive as Revolutionary War reenactors march on Heritage State Park costumed as British, Colonial and French troops, to re-enact the Battle of Fall River. Southcoast Wonders ...