What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

The British Museum initially was slow to ... That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

In the below gallery, we've listed 22 British Acts That Didn't Break Big in America, usually not for a lack of trying.

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years ... There the colonists established their new settlement. Almost eight hundred more settlers ...

In 1838, British settlers began to forcibly take lands from ... world’s silver because it conquered several colonies in Latin America, such as Peru and Mexico. England wanted the money and ...