Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire ...

The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia on this day in 1776, declared that the name of the newly formed nation fighting for its independence from Great Britain would be “The ...

Today on The Indicator, we take stock of the economy of colonial America as it was in 1776, to see where it was weak and where it was strong.

The history of colonial America is a story of extraordinary scope, with Europeans, Africans, and the native peoples of North America interacting in a drama of settlement and conflict that lasted ...

And a few days earlier, a group of African-American public ... Africans in colonial Virginia. But as former Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain argues in her 1776 Project essay, this ...

There, misrule by colonial officials spawned ... a common Declaration of Independence in 1776. Investigate what united and divided England's North American colonies, which were about to embark ...

1776, a fire broke out at the tip of the island. By daybreak, it had consumed five hundred buildings, the most destructive fire in colonial North America. The British claimed the fire was set by ...