Smithsonian Magazine12d
Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution?
On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
Al Jazeera on MSN1d
Searching for Africa’s lost World War soldiers, a name and grave at a time
Nakuru and Kisumu, Kenya – Ogoyi Ogunde belonged to a proud family. His father had carved a home for their clan out of the ...
America’s designs on annexing Canada have a long history − and record of political failures
Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...
250 years later, British ‘troops’ retreat again from Salem
Four days shy of its 250th anniversary, the important but little-known Revolutionary standoff called Leslie’s Retreat played ...
ABC News19d
The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were ...
Hindustan Times18d
The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were looted in the late 19th century by British soldiers from what is now Nigeria. They will be returned at the ...
The Nation Newspaper25d
Post-colonial culture in Nigeria
Resistance to this imposition did not succeed in the face of superior physical force in the hands of the colonial administration. Rebellion and revolts were shot down by the use of soldiers and ...
TribLIVE.com29d
Colonial history comes alive at Bushy Run Battlefield event
And that was without the benefit of a reenactment of the August 1763 battle, in which a contingent of Native Americans were unable to stop British ... visitors how a colonial soldier might use ...