The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration of Independence hailed from here. No one tossed tea into the Susquehanna.

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly enslaved Blacks and free Blacks on the African continent. Liberia was ...

Liberia was founded in the 1820s as part of the American "colonization" movement, which sought to resettle free Black Americans on the African continent. English is the official language of Liberia.

America 250 celebration with Morgan Magnuson, colonial reenactor. When: 10 a.m. Friday, then every third Friday of 2026.

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.