Travel guide website Daily Passport has listed two Virginia locations among its “Six Fascinating Early Colonial America History Sites to Visit.” Colonial Williamsburg and its historic area and St.

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: ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell talked about what was going on in the American colonies in 1776. In 1774, Englishman Thomas ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2018. Pp. xii, 180. Illus., maps, appends., biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN: 9781526725219 America’s First ...

JAMESTOWN — Early American colonists at Jamestown butchered and ate indigenous dogs as well as the dogs they brought with them from England when food was scarce. Historic records, archaeological work ...

When Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer sifted through European archives documenting the Conquest of the Americas, he kept noticing what was missing from the official record. Those who seek ...

User-Created Clip by zlowe March 8, 2023 2023-03-04T08:51:19-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fb1/1678307054.jpgSanta Clara University professor Nancy Unger ...

Colonial-style homes are something you've seen many times, even if you don't know what they're called. First built during the era between 1565 and 1783, Colonial homes were built by settlers from ...

New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary's Church in Adelaide. Published in ...