"When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved the…"

"From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, s…"

"In 1863, Colonel Kit Carson was ordered to clear the country of Navajo Indians and to resettle any survivors at Fort …"

"I think it's hard to make the case, which implicitly the left makes, that somehow the world would have been better of…"

"The appearance of pirates on the coasts of America was coeval with the earliest settlements in the new world, and to …"

"To the west of Europe lay the overseas colonies. In these, with the notable exception of the Northern United States o…"

"These people were of all races, colors, and creeds. French were in the north and in the Carolinas. Dutch had built th…"

"As it happened, the merging of religion and nationalism furthered the cause of European colonization in the New World…"

"For the Spanish, there was little doubt that they were the Catholic power in the wake of Columbus's discovery and Lut…"

"Many of the first voyages landed French Protestant colonists in the midst of Spanish territorial claims in the Caribb…"