When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a fence post. Following this clue, archaeologists just conducted a decade-long ...

The answer, like most things, lies in our history. New England settlers didn't have enough money to paint their farms. So they needed a cheap way to protect the barns' wood. They mixed skimmed ...

For New England settlers, the allocation of land was very important. The promise of owning one's own land and home was a major factor in people's decision to leave Britain and travel across the ...

Short documentary about the Oxcroft Land Settlement near Bolsover Between 1934 and 1939 the Land Settlement Association LSA established 1100 smallholdings within 26 settlements across the country ...