The Americans: The Colonial Experience By: Daniel J. Boorstin America was not believed to be a ground for a utopian society, rather a place for a new start, more freedom, and fewer taxes. The initial group to settle the "New World" were the Puritans, "separatists" making a hopele...

For the past two-hundred and twenty-five years, the United States of America has been its own empire. However, prior to this time, this country was the equivalent of young child, trying to find its own identity. Great Britain was the mother country for the colonies that had settled onto North Amer...

The word "privateer" conjures a romantic image in the minds of most Americans. Tales of battle and bounty pervade the folklore of privateering, which has become a cherished, if often overlooked part of our shared heritage. Legends were forged during the battle for American independence, and t...

The year 1607 marked an important event in English history. Jamestown, the first colony in America, was set up on an inland peninsula of Chesapeake Bay by English people. Later, the Pilgrims' Mayflower reached by accident to a place called Massachusetts Bay, and settled in the town called Plymouth;...

There comes a time when a student outperforms his teacher, this is also the case in the colonization of the American Continent. It took a while for the inhabitants to realize that they were better off without the British monarchy, but the colonists did not realize this immediately; i...

Just as the atmosphere builds its energy over long areas of land and water, slowly accumulating potential energy, so was the expansion of England during the reins of James I, and Charles I. Then through years of expansion and change the storm of civil war challenged the Ancient Constitution. Jam...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many European powers and later American leaders began a series of colonization's which lasted for generations. During the era of imperialism, many countries increased their interests in far away lands and had to justify their conquests t...

In the year 1763, Great Britain stood victorious in North America after sweeping France from the continent with the assistance of the American colonists, and few would have predicted the end of the long ties between the English Crown and the American colonies. Yet by the last months of 177...

In the year 1763, Great Britain stood victorious in North America after sweeping France from the continent with the assistance of the American colonists, and few would have predicted the end of the long ties between the English Crown and the American colonies. Yet by the last months of 177...