slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the British North American colonies, and not just in the plantation economy of the South. While many southerners found slavery morally repugnant ...

The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

Millions of Africans are abducted from their homelands to labor in the North American colonies. So horrific is their "middle passage" across the Atlantic that almost a quarter of them die during ...

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By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

Beginning in the late 1740s, the colony was the centerpiece of the Earl of Halifax’s ambitious plan to reform the North American colonies. As a “model colony” and laboratory of empire ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

The idea for a union of the British North American colonies began in June, 1864. John A. Macdonald, accompanied by George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown, among others, went to Charlottetown ...

The course surveys major developments in the economic history of North America between 1600 and 2000. Colonial development; the American Revolution; Early North American Industry; Slavery; Westward ...

North American West Ian Tonat is a PhD candidate with research interests in North American colonial history, Native American history, and the early American West. In particular, he is interested in ...