Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...
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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 ...
New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler Photographs by ...
Colonial America is more than a chapter in a textbook, it’s a living, breathing world scattered across some of the most atmospheric towns and cities in the United States. Walk their cobblestone ...
In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...
American Colonial architecture spans a variety of styles that reflect the diverse origins of the early settlers in what would become the United States. Each style, from the simple Saltbox homes of New ...
In his acclaimed new book, First Contact, Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer draws on the power of speculative ...
MACKINAW CITY — Some of Mackinaw City’s most interesting features are not what’s happening there now but what happened there in the past. Thanks to archeological work conducted by Mackinac State ...
There is an architecture of the migrant. It is survivalist, built with what is available, made as quickly as possible, with safety as its core value. Americans romanticize that architecture as ...
During the first act of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Aaron Burr remembers his mother, the late Esther Edwards Burr, with intense, almost apotheotic fondness: “My mother was a genius My father ...
"The moniker United States of America has remained since then as a symbol of freedom and independence," states the National Constitution Center. After enumerating a lengthy list of grievances against ...
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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