Bernard Bailyn, an influential and significant historian of the American colonial period, passed away last week at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. The cause of death was heart failure. He was 97.

Starting in 1820, thousands of Black emigrants were shipped to what would become Liberia. The society's segregationist ideology has a lasting impact on America and Liberia. On December 21, 1816, a ...

THE stream of writings upon American history has been flowing strongly for a century, until now the field is buried deep with monographs, documents, biographies, textbooks, and political or ...

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence coin ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...

"The English side of the story."--Pref. "Published on the Louis Stern Memorial Fund." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...

V. 1. The colonial period / edited by Timothy Lockley -- v. 2. The revolutionary and early national period / edited by Timothy Lockley -- v. 3. The antebellum period / edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...

Before European colonization reshaped the Americas, Native American tribes and nations thrived across the continent. Many of these groups built advanced societies with large populations, sophisticated ...