"Indeed, Every was in New England for over a month weighing his options for starting his life anew in the colonies or going back home to England." Every's exploits have inspired Steven Johnson's ...

The original 13 colonies were divided into three distinct regions confined by French and Spanish territories to the north and south respectively. The northernmost New England colonies of ...

Although some returned to England once their servitude was over, many remained and began their new lives in the colonies. Sponsor Message Amateur genealogist Carol Carman is a descendant of one ...

Lawler: New England in that day was a land primarily ... the South at the time of Lexington and Concord? Did the Southern colonies immediately decide to take up arms? Lawler: No. The Southern ...

In the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, education was mostly done by the churches. This system was to go on in the New England colonies well into the 1700s, and the same ...