defiantly expansionist colonies alive with an increasingly sophisticated and literate political and intellectual culture that would coalesce into the rationale for the birth of American independence.

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

Colonial Williamsburg, which is in the Tidewater region of Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum, offering ...

The course surveys major developments in the economic history of North America between 1600 and 2000. Colonial development; the American Revolution; Early North American Industry; Slavery; Westward ...

excellent short look at the military history of earliest European settlements in North America, not only English and French colonies, but also the usually neglected Dutch and Swedish, and takes in the ...