The video discusses the emergence of an American identity through literature during the 18th-century Revolutionary period. It highlights the growth of colonial communities, the role of printing in ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe.

Colonial Williamsburg’s curators have spent the past 10 years working — with many successes — to assemble a collection of American-made silver “worthy of the institution’s other ...

Both are pervasive features of the old colonial order and of American history. They are part and parcel of colonialism’s racialized global and territorial segregation.