With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...

Both colonizers, despite their differences, aimed at squeezing profit for their imperial centers The colonial footprints in Africa paint a ...

Switzerland was never a colonial power, yet through its traders, mercenaries, anthropologists and missionaries, it contributed to colonial expansion, sparking debates about how to confront this lesser ...

Andaman and Nicobar Islands capital Port Blair will now be known as Sri Vijaya Puram, a step taken by the Central government ...

Bal Gangadhar Tilak's innovative approach to Ganesh Chaturthi redefined its role from a private religious observance into a ...

William Blaxton, an eccentric loner and Anglican minister, settled Boston before the Puritans and Rhode Island before Roger ...

Caribbean governments are being urged to purge traces of Christopher Columbus from their coats of arms to strike a “dagger through the heart of colonialism”.

Grenada, another former British colony, is now facing internal ... The calls for national symbols to be stripped of their colonial imagery come during a growing campaign to secure reparations ...

Princess Dinubolu of Senegal made history by becoming the first black person to compete in a beauty pageant in the UK. Just ...

Samson Historical is one of a very few 18th century style stores in the country and probably the only one in the state. The ...

5, 1774, when delegates from 12 of Britain’s 20 North American colonies met in Philadelphia to respond to the Intolerable Acts — the British Parliament’s response to the Boston Tea Party.