[Part I. European approaches to the new world] -- Tudor expansion : the transition from medieval to modern history / A.L. Rowse -- State control in sixteenth-century England / Lawrence Stone -- ...

A world to take -- England stakes a claim -- the land they found -- Atlantic foothold -- Religious havens -- The people who came -- Competition for colonies -- Burdens and blessings -- The settlers ...

Bernard Bailyn, an influential and significant historian of the American colonial period, passed away last week at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. The cause of death was heart failure. He was 97.

THE stream of writings upon American history has been flowing strongly for a century, until now the field is buried deep with monographs, documents, biographies, textbooks, and political or ...

Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...

It is a pity that Mr. Arnold, in his Life of Benedict Arnold, 3 should have been haunted throughout the book by the thought of Arnold’s treachery, for he has succeeded in rendering the reader ...