Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, and shifting global power. This video delves into the conflicts, economic ...
The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...
It began with exploration but quickly turned into conquest. In just a century, European powers reshaped the Americas through war, trade, and colonization As California highway slides toward sea, the ...
"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...
In this year of America’s 250th anniversary, archaeologists and college students recently discovered artifacts dating back to ...
American Primeval, Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops, crude trappers, and bloodthirsty Natives. Think Under the Banner of ...
Stan Douglas dissects and dramatizes the machinery of empire—its spectacle, its systems, and its violence—while inviting viewers to reconsider how histories are recorded, contested, and retold.