The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self-sufficient without colonial resources. Because of this ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

BRITAIN'S Colonies, no less than the Dominions and India, are contributing their share to the war effort of the Commonwealth. The spectacular activities of the Canadian airmen over Britain, of the ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes." - Lao Tzu The rallying cry of the American Revolution, “No ...