Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

Thousands poured down the Great Wagon Road, eager to start a new life in North America’s interior. Tensions were rising between England and the colonies, but new arrivals and American-born colonists ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.

Blacksmith Keith Chester of Arlington pounds hot metal during a smithing demonstration on Saturday at Northwest Colonial Festival on the grounds of the George Washington Inn and Estate east of Port ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...