América colonial

Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period....

This installment focuses on the Maryland colony, established and governed for more than a century by six men, the Calverts, who became the Lords Baltimore....

New Hampshire was founded through land grants issued to John Mason and Fernando Gorges in 1622....

Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America....

In 1607, three small ships - the Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant - arrived on the North American coast and established the first successful British settlement at Jamestown, Virginia....