Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Brown’s Town history reveals a complex legacy shaped by an Irish pro-slavery planter, a Baptist slave preacher, and a Scottish missionary and explorer.

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

This film is suffering from vinegar syndrome. The film "Section Sixteen" explores the history of education in America, beginning with the early settlers who prioritized survival over learning.

Philanthropy was an important marker of social standing in Colonial India and the famine efforts of the American missionaries boosted their popularity among Indians. It also helped assert America ...

Explores the rich heritage of hand weaving in America, tracing its origins back to the early Colonists who brought their weaving skills to the New World. By the time of the American Revolution ...

Teri Kanefield, a writer and lawyer who lives in San Francisco, eight years ago published “The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman ... female in early America. Wright probably was ...

Both are pervasive features of the old colonial order and of American history. They are part and parcel of colonialism’s racialized global and territorial segregation. Our colonial subjection ...

Elena Jackson Albarrán does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

Theresa McCulla What does the early American beer scene look like? Who's making it? Who’s drinking it? How much are they drinking? In colonial America and until the mid-19 th century ...