(AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File) This image provided by The New York Public Library shows a document known as the “Olive ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

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

The stories of hardship, abuse, discrimination, rape, murder and racial violence against Indians displaced by indentured labour have not eroded with time, writes Vinesh Selvan.

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

In 1843, in the aftermath of the First Opium War, British colonial forces took over Hong Kong. But the walled city—so named because of fortifications like cannons, a gate, and watchtowers ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The African Transformation Movement has announced plans to formally table a proposal before parliament to change South Africa’s official name.

A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

From the official records of the Colonial Office by Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Publication date 1967 Topics British colonies, Great Britain -- Colonies -- History, Great Britain -- Colonies ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...