The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
Smallpox was the most feared disease in North America and in many parts of the world before its eradication in 1980. So how did early...
What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America? Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative...
What does it take to create a museum? How can a museum help visitors grapple with a very uncomfortable aspect of their nation’s past...
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...
Image credit: Image of Mayflower II courtesy of Plimoth Patuxet. Before New England was New England, it was the Dawnland. A region that...
Image credit: Image of Native interpretation of Historic Patuxet courtesy of Plimoth Patuxet. Before New England was New England, it was...
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...
The British North American colonies formed some of the most democratic governments in the world. But that doesn't mean that all early...