By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters. What do we know about the ships...
The story of the founding of the United States is a familiar one. It usually (but not always) begins with English settlement at...
Have you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States...
The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the...
Is there anything more we can know about well-researched and reported events like the Boston Massacre? Are there new ways of looking at oft...
When we think of important years in the history of the American Revolution, we might think of years like 1765 and the Stamp Act Crisis...
How did Jamaica grow to become the “crown jewel” of the British Atlantic World? Part of the answer is that Jamaica’s women...
What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America? To get at the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the...
The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land...
In what ways did the Atlantic World contribute to the American Revolution? Empire, slavery, and constant warfare interacted with each other...