The nine colleges that existed in the original 13 colonies when the Revolutionary War broke out each shaped the new nation’s political culture in a distinct way, says J. David Hoeveler, professor of ...

Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

From the 16th century, the isthmus of Panama became a global strategic asset facilitating the transportation of goods and people between the Iberian Peninsula and the colonies of the Kingdom of Spain ...

“We cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country,” wrote the resolution’s 51 signees. Their words were republished in newspapers across ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a ...