In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought ...

Slavery was one of the cornerstones of European colonization across the Americas. The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown.

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

A new study published in the journal Nature provides compelling evidence that syphilis originated in the Americas and spread globally through European colonization, challenging long-held ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas, but it was his arrival ... up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation ...

Consequently, the sudden human influence during European colonization of southern Africa in the 17th century likely played a ...

At the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, American officials delivered a message that was both familiar and ominous: Europe must do more for its own defense. While this refrain has ...