While Harris offered a glimpse of daily life in the colonies, she also offered her views on the politicians of the day. In 1860, prominent politician John A. Macdonald and other members of the ...

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A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

However, over the course of the century, a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the dawn of the new century, the majority of Africans and African Americans were slaves for life.

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On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Backcountry colonists in Camden and Long Bluff, South Carolina helped win the American Revolutionary War by declaring their ...

It’s too early to tell what implications his 2024 presidential return will have, but they will be felt worldwide ...

Deep below the surface, microorganisms and other creatures cluster near hydrothermal vents, fissures in the ocean floor where life can thrive. This could be the scene on Europa, a moon of Jupiter ...