The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do without. In 1862, one member of parliament expressed the views held by ...

By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work ...

1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

Scientists uncovered the origin of the oldest known surviving tombstone in the US, according to a new study. Here’s what it ...

QUEBEC, Monday, June 9, 1862. This city has been agitated for ... instead of being a British garrison, threatening to and threafened by you, should become a neutral territory, whose independence ...

While many people remain torn over the outcome, one British woman seems rather pleased ... as she needs to experience all the culture America has to offer. She admitted she can't buy property ...

It was passed to raise additional federal revenue to fund the war against the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1862 is notable for introducing the ...

Indeed, it is not to be lost sight of that the manner in which England and English policy are still regarded in the North shows that the fact of our making any proposition, however good ...

Façade of Canvas house in Toronto. Image © Younes Bounhar and Teddy Shropshire via Archdaily Leah Wulfman Poster Image. Image Courtesy of Architectural League Prize ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown ... Canada is the Donnie Creek fire in British Columbia which is now blazing over ...

More than 200 years after the British tried to settle in the area, the Freedman’s Colony was established in 1862, during the American ... routes along the coast of South America, the Caribbean, and ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...