On March 5, Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel delivered a lecture titled “Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico.” The event, held in the John B. Davis Lecture ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Montgomery County looked forward to the nation's 250th birthday, museum educators carried forward the history of how it all ...
Stich by meticulous stitch, an embroidered panel representing Pennsylvania’s history as one of the original 13 colonies is coming to colorful life in Shaler for this year’s 250th anniversary of the ...
In colonial America, even a short journey could turn deadly. Roads were little more than muddy trails, rivers were unpredictable, and disease, bandits, and exposure were constant threats. A trip that ...
Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...
For decades, global health partnerships have been packaged as acts of solidarity. In reality, many still mirror the same colonial power imbalances just with better branding. The new America–Uganda ...
Video platform Vimeo is reportedly laying off a large number of employees globally. The job cuts at US-based Vimeo come shortly after the company’s acquisition by the European tech conglomerate ...
“I think the reality is for centuries we treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good," wrote one of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new housing appointees, Cea Weaver, ...
MAGA is rapidly descending into 21st-century colonial fantasy, dressed up in the language of national security and draped in the flag of patriotism. “America First” is currently being reimagined as ...
The indomitable Lady Columbia defends the United States with her snazzy patriotic shield, c. 1890. Library of Congress The first and longest-ruling mascot of the United States made her debut before ...
Have you seen Ken Burns’s series “The American Revolution” on PBS? Even if you haven’t, you might have seen the commentary that accompanied it: a scorching string of articles accusing Burns of ...