These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...

But that is exactly what an international research team has found in the highlands north of Bogotá, Colombia a region ...

But covering a mere 22 square miles—barely a third the area of Washington, D.C.—the colony’s population was quickly dwarfed by English emigration to North America and the Caribbean.

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775 ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in North America were established by the ...

From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now ... SOCIETY Throughout colonial North America, most of the English captured by Indians ...

Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace. She didn’t get a chance to return ...

North America dropped 11 rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on May 2. The U.S. dropped a total of three rigs week on week and ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

"Up to this point, we didn't believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America," said archaeologist ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayers, aboard the International Space Station, captured a stunning display of the Northern Lights over North America. While photographing severe storms, Ayers unexpectedly ...