As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

The map represents a flawed understanding of New World geography, such as picturing California as an island. Many maps of the Americas were produced during the period of exploration and colonial ...

This Perspective presents an overview of the archaeology of pluralistic colonies (approximately late 1500s–1800s) in North America. It complements the other special feature papers in this issue on ...

Father Jacques Marquette, the man who gave Marquette its name, made an incredible mark not only on the Upper Peninsula, but throughout North America as well. The French Jesuit Missionary built an ...

The short answer? Colonial history. Saint Pierre and Miquelon is the last remnant of New France—the once vast French colonial empire in North America. After France lost most of its territories to ...

Still, the French government continued to support the project, and was later joined by the British Foreign Office, which also lent its voice of support for Madagascar as a Jewish settler-colony.

The map depicts parts of the North Carolina shoreline running from the north-eastern community of Currituck down to the midpoint of the coast. However, back in 2012, researchers found a hidden detail ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America, briefly reclaiming the New Netherlands.

It was England’s second attempt to establish a colony in the part of North Carolina now known as the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, on Roanoke Island.