This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The 115 colonists—including Eleanor and Virginia Dare, White’s daughter and infant grandchild—were all but forgotten, marooned on a distant shore. Two decades later the English established ...

English colonial ambition and the exhortations of the Hakluyts set the stage for England's first lasting settlement in the New World: Jamestown. The colony on Chesapeake Bay was first and foremost ...

People back in England noted the quirky new ways Americans were speaking English within a generation of the colonists’ arrival. Over time, the changes went beyond accent to include different ...

Looking to cause unrest within the English colonies, the Spanish had issued a proclamation stating that any slave who deserted to St Augustine would be given the same treatment. Certainly this ...

The English colonists, including John Smith, had built a new settlement called Jamestown, hoping to make money from the local natural resources to send back to Europe. Matoaka, it is thought ...