This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method of building log cabins, which ...

Millions of Africans are abducted from their homelands to labor in the North American colonies. So horrific is their "middle passage" across the Atlantic that almost a quarter of them die during ...

slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the British North American colonies, and not just in the plantation economy of the South. While many southerners found slavery morally repugnant ...

The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn't they colonize the region like ...

The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

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Originally published in 1972, this study is of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis on the later years. The authors ...

Romo succeeds former archaeology director Dave Givens, who is now as the director of geophysics at Goodwin & Associates Inc.

These accounts are rare: few letters sent by emigrants during the colonial period exist ... "Discoveries of America is a welcomed, meticulously researched addition to the study of the ...

Specializing in both pre-Columbian and colonial cultures, the collection features more ... is the most commonly used headdress among Native North American tribal groups. Most are made of some ...