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

Although the Royal Charter of the Colony of Virginia in 1609 granted the authority to mint coins, the power was never used ...

Some countries have as many as four anthems, to represent different languages or tribes. Others have dark histories buried in the music and lyrics.

The expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, estimated at seventy thousand, was announced in August; we were given three months to leave. Around twenty thousand had Ugandan citizenship. Roughly the ...

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

As the country counts down to its semiquincentennial next year, historians in New York’s North Country are taking another ...

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

Islamic world has not only resisted Western influence but actively sought to assert its dominance—culturally, religiously, ...

This is the first in a weekly series to be featured every Saturday in The Recorder over the next on the founding of this ...