Q: In the Virginia colony, describe those first settlers who come. What are they like? What kind of people come into America for that first settlement? A: We romanticize, I think, the people who ...

The first English settlers in North America ate indigenous dogs to survive during an intense period of starvation, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Iowa uncovered ...

That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse genetic mixture of English and Native Americans ...

Fine sewing needles made from the bones of small animals such as foxes and mountain lions, which hunters used to make ...

The first white Americans to settle in the Islands arrived in the 1820s intent on Christianizing aboriginal Hawaiians; they soon decided it was the Lord's will that they husband the Hawaiian lands ...

After corn was husked, it had to be shelled and processed before it could be cooked into a meal in the early 1800s in Ohio ...

And in 2015 they discovered the skeletal remains of the first settlers. But climate change ... the beginnings of democratic government in America based on the rule of law and individual freedoms.

the legal history of settlement, and early American constitutional history.' Alison LaCroix, Common-Place (common-place.org) 'The discovery at the heart of Settlers, Liberty, and Empire - and the ...