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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

20 at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University, looks at the history of measurement during ...