In a number of popular pamphlets they made the argument for colonization: England stood to gain glory, profit, and adventure. The younger sons of English nobility, lacking property at home ...

Q: Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still named after British nobility? Dan Vesco | Haymarket, Virginia It’s hard to say for sure why specific places weren’t ...

Historically, the English only enslaved non-Christians, and not, in particular, Africans. And the status of slave (Europeans had African slaves prior to the colonization of the Americas ...

USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg is on site in Houston to preview the national championship game between Florida and Houston. A diver on an expedition off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, captured ...

The British are coming to Fall River! Reenactors will descend on Heritage State Park next month for a unique living history ...

His findings are exciting those who research Europe’s colonization of the New World, given how rare it is to uncover remnants of such an early English community in the Americas. Mark Horton ...

World News "Nudutu Cinemawa” – Analysis of “The Social Dilemma" English Docudrama The number of Sinhala speakers living in Australia is increasing. Here is the latest census data A book that ...

French-speakers made up almost a third of the population and the rest were mostly English speaking. Most people in the colonies married in their twenties. Women had no more legal rights than their ...