The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: The President and Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society respectfully represent that, being about to commence the ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule ...

That rapacious bravado has the same flavor as President-elect Donald Trump’s recent declaration that he’ll rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” because “it’s ours.” ...

As an immigrant temporary professed Trinitarian friar in Maryland, Marvin Santos reflects on how the tangled legacy of faith, ...

but it was his arrival—and subsquent three additional voyages over the next twelve years—that shephereded in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this ...

There is no other historical or archaeological evidence for contact between the whalers and the Yaburara', said archaeologist Ken Mulvaney.