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.

Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each ...

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 ...