Tobacco being loaded onto ships in the James River, Virginia, circa 1661. Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists were under the control of Great ...

Despite their many differences, the North American colonies eventually came together as one country – the United States of America. It’s that acceptance of other cultures, other ideas, other people, ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town during an oft-overlooked encounter known as Leslie’s Retreat “Here … we claim ...

In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the Outer Banks. However, by 1590, the traces of the colony had disappeared, and ...

The dominant storyline of our American Revolution is about patriotic defiance — refusing to pay taxes, dumping tea into the Boston Harbor and shooting redcoats once we saw the whites of their eyes. It ...

Four castaways become the first men of the old world to span the new, 1528-1536 -- Spain plants the first permanent European settlement in North America, 1565 -- Puritan New England's first major war- ...

In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: The colonists came to ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced him ...