As I combed the internet for holiday cookie swap ideas this year, I stumbled on what’s believed to be the first Christmas cookie in the United States. Simply called “Christmas Cookey,” the recipe was ...

In the spring of 1851, Jefferson Davis, a U.S. senator and the future president of the Confederacy, proposed to import 50 African and Asian camels—“the ship of the desert,” he called them—into the ...

Lawmakers in Algeria have begun debating a draft law that would criminalise France’s colonisation of the North African country amid a period of tense ties between the two countries, according to the ...

Unlike the Spanish conquistadors, or even the Portuguese, the British colonialists in India did not use brute force to save the millions of Hindus passing into eternity without salvation. An overt or ...

Colonial Williamsburg door decorations are based upon the fact that natural materials of wreaths and swags form the basis for the attractions — no ribbons, no tinsel, no fake fruit. This year marks ...

More than six centuries ago, roughly 80 years ahead of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, Chinese admiral Zheng He reached the eastern coast of Africa with a massive fleet and a crew of more than ...

Deputy President Paul Mashatile has drawn a firm line on the unresolved land question, declaring that the government will not be intimidated into silence as it pressed ahead with land expropriation to ...

The ancestry of dogs in seventeenth-century Jamestown offers a window into social dynamics between Indigenous people and early colonists. America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown was ...

The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town ...