Amid a triumphant drumbeat of exhibitions and auctions celebrating the revolutionaries, texts, and ideals of America’s founding, the British Museum is complicating the picture with a small exhibition ...

Add PBS as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of the American Revolution is often framed as a heroic win over the British government. Brave colonists persevered through ...

[Part I. European approaches to the new world] -- Tudor expansion : the transition from medieval to modern history / A.L. Rowse -- State control in sixteenth-century England / Lawrence Stone -- ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same Kinsey Gidick An 1812 illustration of a private from the ...

Left to right: William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield; William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth; Isaac Barré; John Wilkes. Bridgeman (2); Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth; The Colonial Williamsburg ...

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Native Americans and the European encounter -- The Spanish Empire in America -- The French Empire in America -- Virginia and the Chesapeake -- New England -- The ...

I have posted several items on the idea of empire as it applies to American history. Although a generation ago, even to speak of American empire was contentious and provocative, today it is an ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Colonial America is more than a chapter in a textbook, it's a living, breathing world scattered across ...