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 ...

Human history is a history of movement. No people, nation, or ethnic group emerged fully formed from the soil of a single place. Migration, conquest, alliance, and assimilation have shaped societies ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Every cloud has a silver lining,” wrote English poet-philosopher and leading 17th century civil servant John Milton in one of his lesser known plays. While Milton is best known for his ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington in May JOHANNESBURG | Xinhua | South Africa cannot remain silent on the unresolved land ...

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 ...

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 ...