Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted the people it oppressed. But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, ...

It would take a determined visitor to the Royal Museum for Central Africa to locate the life-sized likeness of one of history’s most brutal colonial rulers carved from ivory. The statue of Belgium‘s ...

Did the massive scale of death in the Americas following colonial contact in the 1500s affect atmospheric CO 2 levels? That’s a question scientists have debated over the last 30 years, ever since they ...

The Miller-Cory House Museum in Westfield is offering an opportunity to experience what childhood was like in colonial times. On May 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. visitors can explore old-fashioned toys and ...

VATICAN CITY, March 30 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday formally repudiated the colonial-era "doctrine of discovery", used centuries ago to justify European conquests of Africa and the Americas, ...

This image courtesy of Rieley & Associates Landscape Architects shows a preliminary rendering for the reconstructed garden of John Custis IV at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a living history ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is contributing $5 million toward the restoration of a The Bray School, a building used to educate Black children in Virginia during the 1700s. The schoolhouse is ...

While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of ...

Powerful preaching of the whole word of God by fearless and dedicated clergy was the fuel that helped inspire the American Revolutionary War. The clergy’s boldness was a foundation for the American ...

Indian Army and NGO volunteers restore hidden military structure; experts identify site as British Army depot and protection post, believed to have functioned as security checkpoint A long-forgotten ...