Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a two-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago, where more than a third of ...

Many University of Florida students walk through the halls of Smathers Library without realizing they are just steps away ...

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Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the ...

Despite its name, "The Great British Bake Off" features desserts from around the world. Here are some of the ...

The octagonal cupola of Williamsburg’s historic schoolhouse stands sentinel over brick buildings that have witnessed centuries of American history unfold beneath Virginia skies. Photo credit: Manuel ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...