From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

These colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast, from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south. But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s ...

At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated ...