Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the ...

Women in the U.S. territories experience particularized harms often rooted in U.S. colonization and the territories’ political relationship with the United States. This Essay describes how traditional ...

Two hundred fifty years ago this month, on Feb. 9, 1775, the British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be ...

There is, it turns out, a little examined strain of history that provides a fresh way to understand his instincts. Hidden in ...

It heralded a Russian shift towards the Baltic, which anticipated Peter the Great’s focus on the West. But his greatest triumph came in 1667 with the Truce of Andrusovo between Tsarist Russia and the ...

specifically the role of African Americans in colonial America and in the founding of the nation. In an interview with The Virginia Gazette just a few months into his presidency, Longsworth said ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

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And, it was, arguably, his tryst with the British Raj that catalysed his transformation from Eric Blair – the son of a colonial opium agent – to ... a Professor of History at the American University ...

A recent report by Oxfam International reveals a shocking truth. During colonial rule, the UK took around $64.82 trillion from India. Most of this wealth went to the richest 10% of people. The Oxfam ...

Donald Trump started his second presidential term with eyes set firmly on his MAGA base, demonstrating in words and action his commitment to “America First”, and announcing a break with the global ...

Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images In Monday's inauguration speech, Trump set the tone for a significant change in U.S. foreign policy that could have seismic implications for America's friends and foes.