The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

America 250 celebration with Morgan Magnuson, colonial reenactor. When: 10 a.m. Friday, then every third Friday of 2026.

The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly ...

With 2026 bringing the 250th anniversary of the United States, will we see a revival of interest in colonial American furniture? It’s happened with previous anniversaries. The Centennial celebration ...

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 ...