Defense of Slavery in Virginia Only 25% owned slaves, but slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the colonies ... the summer residence for many southern planters -- had several large ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Whether you celebrate Halloween by reading ghost stories, with friends and family, or watching scary movies, we hope you have ...

Nevada is home to the Great Basin Tribes of the Numu (Northern Paiute), Newe (Western Shoshone), Nuwu (Southern Paiute) and the Wašiw (Washoe). These communities are comprised of 28 separate ...

The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Fortunately, there's another smaller, more remote destination roughly an hour's drive to the southwest that offers visitors ...

with around 15,000 people spread across 80 settlements in the region when European colonies came to the area. Image caption, The southern tip of Manhattan in New York City, in more modern times.

Users can use the system to: Obtain 10–50 times more viable monoclonal colonies Culture single cells in a flask-like environment, without physically separating them, avoiding perturbation to ...

At midnight on June 11, 1940, Italy declared war on France. This was something that had been anticipated for some time, ...

If the trend continues, Boulders Beach and the six other major colonies along the coast of ... Nicky Stander, head of conservation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of ...