Between 1837 and 1842, The Baltimore Sun ran nearly a dozen editorials pressing hard (if at times slyly or with ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Crow Wing County residents may not know about James McGill, but the English fur trader helped settle the area 250 years ago. McGill is the first documented English fur trader to winter in central ...

(CNN) --A silver coin found in Maryland after almost 400 years provided a big clue for archaeologists searching for St. Mary's Fort -- one of the earliest English settlements in the New World. The ...

September 26th is a notable day for one Connecticut town, that prides itself in being first. The town of Windsor, located just north of Hartford, was home to the first English settlement in the entire ...

A hundred-plus Englishmen debark from three ships and set up housekeeping on the swampy shores of the James River. This year's 400th anniversary celebrations honor that event as the beginning of this ...