Women in Colonial America Were More Powerful Than We Give Them Credit For

Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

British Mercantilism and Its Impact on American Colonies

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.
insider.si.edu

Religion in colonial America

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

The Colonial Expansion of the United States

OUR country has been suddenly placed in the position of a man who, intending to make a small bill at a foreclosure sale to protect the interest of a poor neighbor, finds himself unexpectedly the owner ...
International Middle East Media Center

Israel is USA’s “Mini-Me” – Settler/Colonial Reflections

Israeli is a microcosm of the USA. It’s like a little miniature version of the settler-colonial state that took over the entirety of turtle island from “sea to shining sea” between the 1600s and the ...
The New York Times

Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here. Now the Public Can Learn the History.

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America ...