Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

British colonies in the West Indies and the colonies that eventually became the United States of America were among the most brutal and fully realized slave societies in world history. And yet, ...

The map was ... of the American War of Independence in 1776. The war had left the British government in charge of a new stretch of territory to the west of the existing British colonies, from ...

While history books detail past events that shaped the world, historic maps literally show us how the world as we know it ...

Ph.D., English. University of Illinois at Chicago. 2001, Program: Literature, Preliminary Exams: Early Modern British Literature, 1500-1700; American Literature ...

The bloodshed of the American Revolution had just come to end. It was 1784, and with the signing of the Treaty of Paris months earlier, Britain had finally recognized the 13 colonies. It would be ...

Map of the Columbian Exchange between the New World and the ... and malaria that spread to mainland Central America and ...

Relief-type cultural heritage objects are commonly found in many historical sites worldwide, but often suffer from varying ...

The southern coast of the Central American nation offers beachfront villas ... and Greek Revival elements in New Bern and a 1941 Colonial Revival house in Asbury Park. The eastern Australian ...