Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Key Takeaways Mercantilism increased a country's wealth by boosting exports.Colonies experienced high inflation and heavy taxation under mercantilism.Mercantilism led to ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...

Thousands poured down the Great Wagon Road, eager to start a new life in North America’s interior. Tensions were rising between England and the colonies, but new arrivals and American-born colonists ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, Georgia also was late to secure independence.

Two hundred and fifty years ago Saturday, an angry mob of American colonists swarmed three ships moored at the docks in Boston, seized 45 tons of tea and tossed it into the harbor. The popular version ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane September 14, 2018 2013-07-03T22:30:16-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1e7/20130703223110003_hd.jpgU.S. Naval War College professor ...

As Virginia’s first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women’s viewpoints and collaborated with prominent politicians like Thomas Jefferson Alexandra Cox The story of how ...

Early American currency wasn’t always American. Up until 1857, foreign coins were accepted as legal tender because there weren’t enough domestic coins to go around. Another result of the shortage: To ...