What’s the buzz when it comes to honeybee health? Experts are reporting that the bee industry is in a fragile state after ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

During that time, the prevailing economic wisdom was that the empire's colonies could supply raw materials and resources to the mother country and then be used as export markets for the finished ...

The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...