Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts.

Learn who was the first president of the USA, George Washington. Read on to know more about George Washington’s history, role as the first president of the US, and what George Washington is so ...

The United States still has remnants of its colonial empire, for example, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States (Early American Studies) In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the ...

The United States of America were formally created by an act of the Second Continental Congress on this day in history, Sept. 9, 1776.

Historians discuss America's history of military and political intervention in foreign nations.

Michelle McDonald, library and museum director at the American Philosophical Society, provided an introduction to her lecture about the role and growing importance of coffee in colonial America ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.