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

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had ...

Thousands poured down the Great Wagon Road, eager to start a new life in North America’s interior. Tensions were rising between England and the colonies, but new arrivals and American-born colonists ...

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.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

If the Comte de Vergennes hadn’t played a hunch nearly 250 years ago, Americans today might be singing “God Save the King” before the first ball at a cricket match. In 1776, the French foreign ...

As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...