colonialism Archives - The American Scholar

Masters of Empire

By Stephanie Bastek | 12/22/2015 |

Read an excerpt from Michael A. McDonnell’s new book about Great Lakes Indians

Where Does American History Begin?

By Ted Widmer | 09/01/2008

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down

Between Two Worlds

By Christopher Clausen | 06/01/2007

The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father