Gothic novels, disability in literature, pedagogy, colonial American witchcraft trials, American literature, and transatlantic literary studies. Bridget M. Marshall's most recent book is "Industrial ...

Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been ...

But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey ... ports along the Atlantic seaboard. However, colonial prosperity wasn’t equally shared.