Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England by Martyn Percy takes the British Empire’s church militant to task. Is ...

Trump, like Putin, seems to believe that it’s his prerogative as the leader of a global superpower to seize land to promote U ...

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Letting go of colonies is "always mortifying to the ... Britons might look forward to calling themselves citizens of the American empire. Smith probably designed this uproarious argument to ...

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 ...

The United States still has remnants of its colonial empire, for example, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But it also has ...

Angry and frustrated American colonists revolted against ... Trade became triangulated during the mid-1600s between the British Empire, its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...