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.

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

Travel guide website Daily Passport has listed two Virginia locations among its “Six Fascinating Early Colonial America History Sites to Visit.” Colonial Williamsburg and its historic area and St.

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...