Alexis de Tocqueville’s observations of early America reveal that civic vitality is vital for democracy, and that liberal ...

The corruptions of French names have been in many instances ... departure upon France is the other. The study of the Huguenots in America brings out strongly their value as a people.

Nestled among the early frontier communities was a source of French heritage—one that marks the largest Huguenot settlement in America. In 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which ...

This caused approximately half a million French Protestants to ... contributed to Virginia’s (and America’s) phenomenal success. He will follow one Huguenot family from Sedan, France, to ...

Treasure galleons from South America and Mexico now sailed to Cuba ... Philip II had declared Florida not worth settling. Then, in 1564, French Huguenots landed near today's Jacksonville and ...

In 17th-century Colonial America, Flushing stood out in the ... European immigrants fleeing persecution, including French Huguenots, Swedish Lutherans and Portuguese Jews. A 1656 ordinance ...

There were blips of immigration — French Huguenots in the 1690s ... The first press in British America — its type and hardware and even its paper imported — was set up in Cambridge shortly ...

In 1564, the French Huguenots (Protestants) had settled on the Banks of May ... which would later grow into Saint Augustine--the oldest city in North America. Two weeks later, on September 20, he ...

His ancestors are said to have been French Huguenots who'd fled to Germany after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had granted protection to Protestants. His son, John Jacob Astor ...

Boucher, an associate professor of history at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, will provide details about a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River, within the present-day ...