American Race and Ethnicity
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Americans tend to differentiate between race and ethnicity, seeing the former as inherited physical differences and the latter as a distinctive sense …
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
Rising anti-British feeling among Native Americans allowed diverse groups of Senecas, Shawnees, Delawares, and various Algonquin villages to set aside former differences. In the winter of 1762, war belts …
American Quebec Act 1774
Passed by Parliament on June 22, 1774, the Quebec Act attempted to secure the political allegiance of Britain’s new Catholic Canadian subjects acquired as a result of the Seven …
Pontiac c. 1720–1769
Little is known about the early life and career of Pontiac, an Ottawa war leader most closely associated with a series of frontier attacks known as Pontiac’s Rebellion. Euro-American …
Delaware: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Efforts by Spain in the sixteenth century to establish, and later maintain, a foothold along the Atlantic coast between Florida and Chesapeake Bay a region considered vital to the …
Puerto Rico: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records Department. World War I Veterans. Box 31. Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records …
American Chesapeake Bay and the Middle Colonies
Initial voyages to the New World were generally unsuccessful. The first colonists were a mix of a few enthusiastic middle-class adventurers, looking for the vast wealth promised by the …
Prostitution
Commercialized vice appeared early in colonial America. Prostitution was most often connected to urban, maritime, and, especially, wartime societies. Prostitutes plied their trade individually in nearly every community, ranging …