On Jan. 30, 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 evolved ...
Liberia was founded in the 1820s as part of the American "colonization" movement, which sought to resettle free Black Americans on the African continent. English is the official language of Liberia.
European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...
Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.
V isitors walking Boston’s Freedom Trail pass familiar landmarks — Beacon Hill, the Old North Church, King’s Chapel, and the ...
National Sojourners Indiana Masonic Home No. 541, a Franklin-based group of Freemasons, pose in colonial outfits in front of a collection of early American flags from the colonial period. The group ...
From conquest to colonization : the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence -- Postwar expulsions and early repatriation policy -- Postwar repatriation and settling the frontiers of ...
"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...