The sixteenth century brought about many changes throughout the world. One of the most significant happenings of this time was the colonization movement around the world. Spain, France, and England, the three major world powers at the time, were moving west in hopes of colonizing the Americas bef...

Mary Rowlandson's survival trough the wilderness With the arrival of the Puritans to Plymouth Colony in New England there was immediately negotiated peace with the Indians that lived nearby: the Wampanoag Indians. When Metacom, also know as Philip, became the new king of the Indians, he turn...

Sarah Kemble Knight What would a woman in the 1700's be doing riding on horseback across country by herself? This question seems shocking to some but not to a woman like Sarah Kemble Knight. She was the daughter of a Boston merchant and married a sea captain. In her quest from Boston to New ...