Delaware: NOTABLE LATINOS
Villamarin, Juan A. (1939-). Villamarin is an emeritus professor of anthropology and former chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. He continues to mentor students …
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Rise of the Assemblies
The upper class of the British mainland colonies increasingly identified their own collective interest with the colonial government’s representative element after 1690. Accordingly, they strove to buttress the standing …
America Guide
American Population and Demographics At the end of the sixteenth century, encouraged by the colonization of Ireland, England was interested in extending its reach. Another factor was that war …
Queen Anne’s War
From 1702 to 1713, Great Britain waged war alongside the Dutch and several German states against France and Spain. This general war in Europe, also known as the War …
The Demographics of Punishment
Most of those punished in colonial America were poor men. Offenders were typically laborers, slaves, servants, and poor freeholders, not ministers of religion or wealthy merchants. In eighteenth-century New …
Pontiac’s Life After the Rebellion
Pontiac’s role in regional tribal affairs continued after the rebellion fizzled. Although he had lost influence among the native peoples near Detroit for failing to destroy the fort, he …
Quebec City
One of the oldest European settlements in the New World, Quebec City was named after an Algonquian word meaning place where the river narrows. Its powerful influence and strategic …
Proclamation of 1763
At the conclusion of the French and Indian War, known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, the British extended their rule across French Canada and into Florida through …