Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

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 ...

Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... defied Spanish claims to North America and arrived on Roanoke hoping ...

The buckskin map, and our story in this programme, come from the years between the British defeat of the French in North America in 1763 ... of the existing British colonies, from the Great ...