In 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of...
2020 commemorated the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime...
The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis sits the town of Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. Established in 1750...
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and...
In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a...
On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately...
How did Indigenous people adapt and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the...
African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent...
Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a movement and protest for more local control...