Colonial America

This political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and originally published in The Philadelphia Gazette on May 9, 1754, represented colonial disunity preceding the French and Indian War.

<p>The Jamestown founder is one of those early American heroes about whom historians are apt to lose their tempers</p>

<p><span class="deck">Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Cursed by ancestry,bedeviled by his posterity, beset by forces he could not grasp, George III is usually remembered as the ogre of Jefferson’s Declaration. An eminent English historian reassesses that strange and pathetic personality</span></p>

<p>Where the written word leaves off, the spade must often take over. A well-known archaeologist relates what the earth has revealed about the first permanent British colony in America</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">They had sent King Charles to the scaffold without remorse. Now they were fugitives in New England with a big price on their heads</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A PORTFOLIO OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A visit to New York when it was little, not very old, and rather more attractive</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In 1639 an Englishman named Lion Gardiner singled out a piece of the New World and removed his family thereto—his very own island off the Connecticut coast. And despite invasions of pirates, treasure hunters, and British soldiers, Gardiners Island has remained in the hands of that family ever since. Because of Lion’s shrewd investment his descendants have indeed been</span> </p>

<p>Why have Americans perceived nature as something to be conquered?</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A British Officer Portrays Colonial America</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Hadley, Massachusetts, (incorporated 1661) coped with wolves, drunks, Indians, witches, and the laws of God and man.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The storm that wrecked the Virginia-bound ship Sea Venture in 1609 inspired a play by Shakespeare— and the survivors’ tribulations may well have sown the first seeds of democracy in the New World</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">400 years ago, the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Just before the American Revolution, the flight of British subjects to the New World forced a panicky English government to wrestle with this question.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Did the Indians have a special, almost noble, affinity with the American environment, or were they despoilers of it? Two historians of the environment explain the profound clash of cultures between Indians and whites that has made each group almost incomprehensible to the other.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An architecture for a new nation found its inspiration in ancient Rome.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Very. The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we knew.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A rare survivor of New England’s earliest days testifies to the strength that forged a nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From Newport to Yorktown and the battle that won the war: A German foot soldier who fought for American independence tells all about it in a newly discovered memoir.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One terrible night came to symbolize the whole struggle for supremacy on the North American continent.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than two decades before the Revolution broke out, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. For the rest of his life, Benjamin Franklin thought it could have prevented the war. It didn’t, but it did give us our Constitution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">If the colony had collapsed, England might not have been established as the major colonial power in North America.</span></p>

<p>Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness,” survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">New ideas—and archaeological evidence—may provide answers to colonial North America’s longest-running mystery.</span></p>

<p>Gallant exploits against long odds helped the American militia capture the famous French citadel. </p>

<p>The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.</p>

<p>A soldier-humanist fights a war for peace in North America.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Fashion once expressed America’s class distinctions. But it doesn’t any more.</span></p>

<p>The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch in 1664 — and alter the trajectory of North American history.</p>

<p>The first votes of the fledgling Virginia Assembly in 1619 marked the inception of the most important political development in American history — the rise of democracy.</p>

<p>By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.</p>