The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.

Texas -The Nevada Army National Guard’s 17th Sustainment Brigade recently completed a rigorous training exercise organized by the 1st Theater Sustainment Command and the 120th Infantry Brigade ...

A 16th Century coin dropped by a thief plundering a Roman fort is among the treasures unearthed during a six-month dig. The ...

But in the 17th century, divisions and gaps were becoming more and more ... When 11,000 Swedes, mainly infantry, faced 3,600 Poles, mainly winged hussars, at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605, they were ...

William Lee invents the knitting machine. First human flight, according to popular myth. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, Brother Elmer (a monk at Malmesbury Abbey) creates a glider from wood and ...

DrShah has explained some of the conditions doctors are now seeing in hospitals - including rickets that surged in the UK hundreds of years ago and scury that was common in the 17th century.

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

This rate was to increase during the next century thanks particularly to the birth of various nonconformist sects. Between 1660 and 1730 around 545 books were published, the majority of which were ...

Now, the way I can gauge that this is a print taken in the 1780s, rather than a lifetime impression, is, first and foremost, that it's an 18th-century paper rather than a 17th-century paper.

James I ordered that Catholics who did not attend Church of England (Protestant) services should be fined, and was reported to detest the Catholic religion. This led to greater opposition to him ...

Basseterre, the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is a historic town with well-preserved Georgian architecture, including Independence Square, the Circus, the 17th-century British Fort Saint ...