Between 1632 and 1760, over 700 Indigenous children were enslaved in New France, treated as property to be bought and sold.

As China became the globe’s dominant trade superpower, largely on the strength of its manufacturing prowess, leaders in the ...

George Washington was president when a group of bois ‘d arc saplings were first beginning their growth in the soil of ...

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Recently, France unveiled a mural called "The Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest," designed to illustrate the "shame" surrounding the recent immigration policies of the Trump administration.

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through revolution, resistance, and relentless warfare. This video unpacks how ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.

Portugal’s Jews faced similar persecution. Whether they sought a new place to settle or stayed and hoped to be accepted as members of Christian society, both groups were searching for belonging.

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas Flora Cassen - Washington University in St. Louis, Ronnie ...

The only known descendant of a Senegalese rifleman killed by French forces in the 1944 Thiaroye massacre has filed a legal complaint against the French state, accusing it of concealing mass graves ...