From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 5, 2014) -- Before the American colonies even made their declaration of independence, the Second Continental Congress gathered together in Philadelphia 238 years ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in ...

Even after King George III received a copy of the Declaration of Independence, which reads like a criminal indictment of his conduct towards the North American colonies, he remained convinced that the ...