What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

The British Museum initially was slow to ... That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

In 1838, British settlers began to forcibly take lands from ... world’s silver because it conquered several colonies in Latin America, such as Peru and Mexico. England wanted the money and ...