Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell opens her lecture on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies with a ...

THOMASVILLE- The Reverend George Wilcox Brown, III, 4th Rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, presented a program to the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century. His topic ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.

In many historic towns, we look at old buildings and imagine what life might have been like. In Colonial Williamsburg, ...

“Power dressing” may not have been a catchphrase in colonial Latin America, but it was undoubtedly a familiar concept. For the elite, a command of fashion signaled status, wealth and worldly ...

Susanna Wright, of Wright’s Ferry on the Susquehanna, was one of the most accomplished and versatile Pennsylvanians of the 18th century. She deserves more recognition. The most detailed published ...

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Michelle McDonald, library and museum director at the American Philosophical Society, provided an introduction to her lecture about the role and ...

Abortion wasn't always controversial. In fact, in colonial America it would have been considered a fairly common practice. But in the mid-1800s, a small group of physicians set out to change that. In ...