As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self-sufficient without colonial resources. Because of this ...

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Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

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Born into royalty, Amrit Kaur gave up a life of privilege to fight for India’s freedom, champion women’s rights, and lay the ...

The grievances of mercantile New England centered ... a large slice of the colony’s population and the majority of their owners’ wealth. As in the northern colonies, revolution came gradually ...

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The first was to wrest Manhattan Island from the control of the Dutch, whose colony of New Netherland ... the Puritans had planted colonies in New England, with Boston as their base.