A new study published in the journal Nature provides compelling evidence that syphilis originated in the Americas and spread globally through European colonization, challenging long-held ...

Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas, but it was his arrival ... up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation ...

It's kind of strange to think that the oldest tombstone in the US didn't actually originate within the borders of the United States.

Reason for Designation: North America’s premier walled city is an architectural treasure and a monument to European colonial history in the New World. Often called a bit of Old Europe on ...