In 1492, the discovery of the Americas initiated European colonialism, resulting in the continent's dominance over much of ...

History textbooks often frame the founding of America as a series of battles and physical conquests. But early American colonialism wasn’t just built with brutal force — it was engineered in libraries ...

Hating the British Empire is nothing new. Indeed, it has been the primary occupation of the academy since about 1960. Not without exceptions, of course. The prolific Jeremy Black’s Imperial Legacies ...

Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources, but what about the effect of colonialism on bodies of water? A new article in Isis: A Journal of the History of ...

In light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many Canadians are coming to terms with Canada’s history of schooling and settler colonialism. Indian Residential Schools and Indian Day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Africa (1722). Original from The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Wikipedia Commons, ...

Tainan is considered the culinary capital of Taiwan. At one of the oldest wet markets in that Southern city, Shuixian Gong Market, the island's vibrant cuisine is on the display. There are displays of ...

In the late seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire controlled almost all of the Indian subcontinent. European visitors marveled at the empire’s wealth and grandeur. Antonio Monserrate, a Portuguese ...