Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical ...

If the phrase “taxation without representation” evokes images of Washington, D.C. license plates, you might want to look a bit further back—250 years, in fact—to a law that enraged American colonists.

It all began in 1587 when more than a hundred English colonists landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. This would have been the first permanent English settlement in ...

The colonists arrived seeking gold and a route to the orient A study of discarded oyster shells has reinforced the idea that the first British colonists in America had to endure an unusually severe ...