Before the English can to the Americas, they experimented with creating and managing an empire in Ireland.

There were so many parts to a pirate ship that it can get pretty complicated. Here’s is what pirates needed to hit the high seas.

The allure of pirate lore has always been accompanied by a fascination with their formidable arsenal of pirate weapons. Let’s explore a few.

A privateer was essentially a legal pirate. But there’s more to the story of privateer vs pirate vs buccaneers!

While some of the romantic notions we have about piracy in the Caribbean are true, the actual history of pirates is so much more fascinating.

The Great Fear was a fascinating period of the French Revolution when everyone in France shared a delusion that mobs were coming for them.

There were many causes of the Haitian Revolution, and they looked different based on peoples’ circumstances and, well, skin color.

The Dutch slave trade lasted for centuries and displaced millions of people. Keep reading to learn how it happened, and why.

The story of William Mullins is more than just the story of the man who left the first will in British America. It’s about the impact we all can have on history.

Beginning in the colonial era, the goddess Columbia became a powerful symbol for the Americas and, later, the United States.