Despite their many differences, the North American colonies eventually came together as one country – the United States of ...

Visit historic sites in the original 13 colonies of the U.S. to hear about colonizers, Indigenous people, enslaved people, and overshadowed women. Here are historic road trips on the east coast to ...

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 ...

WHITTIER, Alaska – Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska's Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it's reachable by just a single road, through a ...

In many historic towns, we look at old buildings and imagine what life might have been like. In Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, imagination gets a little help. Here, the 18th century doesn’t sit ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...

As the US launches a new was against Iran it is important to analyse, from a historical perspective, its foreign policy.