The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Trump, like Putin, seems to believe that it’s his prerogative as the leader of a global superpower to seize land to promote U ...

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

Her current manuscript, tentatively titled Growing Empire: Nature and Power in the American Colonial Philippines, investigates American attempts to recast rural life and agricultural production in the ...