Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.
The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...
At the time, the ideals of justice and freedom, which spread during the French Revolution and the American Revolution, were also fermenting in the six colonies of British North America ...
With its powerful membership of politicians, philanthropists and other influential public figures, the American Colonization Society was well positioned to gain government funding for its schemes ...
In the centre, was the large, bickering United Province of Canada - composed of the French-Catholic ... its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that ...
People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...
According to Intinarelli, “the strongest influence came from the American gentry’s embrace of the works of Andrea Palladio and the French neoclassicists. Elements of the colonial style would ...
The legendary French explorer Samuel de Champlain ... serve as a rock-solid reminder of its role in the colonial wars for control of the Americas. The city was the capital of New France until ...
The class will discuss the history of New France, Franco-American New England, and Franco-American Lewiston-Auburn.