But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity.

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

Sugar Creek Consolidated Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Kathryn Rademacher-Smith’s classroom is the rare one that boasts a kitchen with a fridge and oven adjacent to the desks, so it shouldn’t ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following ... satisfaction was a modest life as a freeman in a burgeoning colonial economy. In 1619 the first black Africans came to ...

Upstairs in Jennifer Price’s classroom, students created Native American rattles ... this is learning the typical day in the life of someone from Colonial times, so they get to move around ...

This title is available on our Higher Education website. Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The ...