Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 ...

Liberia was founded in the 1820s as part of the American "colonization" movement, which sought to resettle free Black Americans on the African continent. English is the official language of Liberia.

America’s year of independence, 1776, began with virtually all of those living in Britain’s 13 North American colonies content to remain under royal rule so long as they could enjoy the basic rights ...

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were newcomers from Germany, Ulster, France, etc. What made them immigrants?

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...