From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

France will withdraw from former colonies ... map of soil degradation in his Toronto office. "The darker the map color, the worse the degradation," he explains. The West African coast, the Middle ...

Now the Native people whose ancestors lived here are finally telling their side of an event known as Bacon’s Rebellion, in which Virginia settlers rose up against the Colonial government in 1676 ...

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of ... Such plots of land dotted Britain’s colonies and served as status symbols for the elite. They ...

principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy in ...

Reminders of the city's colonial past include more than 90 historic ... established 60 years earlier on a tiny piece of land in the middle of the harbor. Difficult to access and almost impossible ...

She fears that in the current political climate, racist narratives will become acceptable in the middle of society ... The ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to ... The modern borders created by ...

THE world commemorated the first year of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel with no clear vision to end the on-going carnage. In the First World War, there were about 22 million deaths.

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and ...