By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...

The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community — national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform — scouts, ...

In sum, Arnab Chatterjee's work on British women writers of the late 18th century representing India is a balanced work, and one making good use of recent postcolonial musings about empire ...

Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

Donald Trump invokes little-known 18th-century wartime law to ... The act was passed shortly after the U.S. had won its freedom from the British Empire and when they stood on the brink of war ...

From household names like Vivienne Westwood to industry figures like Peter Copping and Daniel Lee, to the bold new names reshaping fashion, these are the British designers you should know.

The most she can manage is to point to an 18th-century African monarch abolishing the slave trade as evidence that the British do not deserve any plaudits for their abolitionist efforts across the ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...