It was among the scores of large and profitable slave labor camps -- privately owned and sanctioned by the government -- which had sprung into existance in the southern colonies during the ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... perhaps even expanding further west into the southern Great Lakes ...

Because they dwell in such extreme southern climes that are difficult to reach, new colonies were still being discovered as ...

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

THIS FIERCE PEOPLE. By Alan Pell Crawford. Knopf. 400 pages. $32.50. One way to approach Alan Pell Crawford’s “This Fierce People” is to accept it for what it is — a potboiler from a ...

These antiheroes of the American West are actually not so bad. New research reveals they're good parents and neighbors, and ...

This system was to go on in the New England colonies well into the 1700s, and the same system of church schools was predominant. However, they placed more of a focus on philosophy than simple bible ...

In contrast to Tokyo Bay, colonies in some southern waters are at risk of dying out amid surging ocean temperatures. Exposed to warmer water, corals release photosynthetic cells called ...

A ship carried crates of bananas that concealed identically designed boxes containing the cocaine, police said.

Southern and eastern yellow jacket queens produce all caste members in the colony, and while mated queens from both species hibernate in the winter following the decline of their colonies ...

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of Americans who consumed alcohol -- which had already spiked between ...

Establishing assurance colonies in zoos and increasing connectivity between ... hosting species such as the Critically ...