History of the Americas

William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres and employed laborers and enslav...

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to touri...

The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleons armies and crowned himself a free black king. How did a man born enslav...