From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... However, over the course of the century, a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke ... attempt to form a permanent settlement in ...

This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Fundada ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...

Reason for Designation: North America’s premier walled city is an architectural treasure and a monument to European colonial history in the New World. Often called a bit of Old Europe on ...