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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Baylor University professor Thomas Kidd explained the regional religious differences between the regions of the original English colonies in America.

THERE is little to be said of Mr. Doyle’s work except in the way of praise. He is at some pains to inform us that he has written entirely from the original sources, and in this he has adhered to the ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...

For a brief period during the 16th century, Virginia was the only English colony in North America. The first settlement was established in 1587 on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina. By the ...

At the end of the 16th century, Spain and Portugal dominated the South American continent and parts of the Caribbean. They had also gotten a foothold in Central America and the southern portions of ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.