Imagine the 1600s: The British government, along with other European powers, saw the American continent as ... along the Atlantic seaboard. However, colonial prosperity wasn’t equally shared.

Colonial America normally isn’t associated with ... armor that was recovered from a fort in Maryland that stood in the 1600s. Researchers at Historic St. Mary’s City dug up a tasset ...

Maryland, 1664: The first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law is enacted (amalgamation referred to "race-mixing"). Other colonies soon followed Maryland's example. A 1691 Virginia law declared that ...