America 250 celebration with Morgan Magnuson, colonial reenactor. When: 10 a.m. Friday, then every third Friday of 2026.

The term colonial architecture broadly refers to the buildings and homes that were constructed during a period of colonization in a given country. American colonial architecture emerged in the United ...

Former colonies have felt increasingly empowered to demand compensation from European powers. But even the successful efforts look like exceptions so far. By Max Fisher What do former colonial powers ...

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, winner ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

American slavery is commonly understood to have peaked in the late 18th century and was outlawed by the U.S. in the mid-19th century following the Civil War. The practice of slavery in the 17th ...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — In 1954, large crowds turned out for a historic visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Aden. At the time, this city on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula was a colony of the British ...