Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...

Using a day-by-day progression, we guide viewers through the colonization of North America with Google Earth as our map and timeline. This description follows the earliest coastal footholds, the ...

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Colonization Society's mission was to relocate freed Black Americans to Africa. Starting in 1820, thousands of Black ...

"Readings" at end of each chapter. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!345147~!0#focus ...