Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists were under the control of Great Britain, where the legal tender was both gold and silver, known as a bimetallic ...

A new effort is underway to find the remains of a British ship that Rhode Island colonists burned 250 years ago, marine archaeologists and state officials announced Tuesday. The June 10, 1772, burning ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. James Otis, a Harvard-educated scholar of literature and law, was prominent within colonial Boston's political, literary ...

Some of the biggest names in science and technology have called for the colonization of Mars, including physicist Stephen Hawking and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. They say that populating other planets would ...

The colony was England's first in North America. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Aug. 27, 1587, John White, the governor of ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

Editor’s Note: For PBS NewsHour’s latest Making Sen$e segment, Paul Solman traveled to Plimoth Plantation, a recreation of the pilgrims’ 17th century settlement ...

Two new research ventures appear to support the idea that Roanoke's colonists split into two or more groups after abandoning the North Carolina settlement. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had ...

Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds. Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks on them, ...