Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

Homes in the Willo Historic District of Phoenix date to the early 1920s. Here are prices, date and ticket info for the 36th ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A French court ruled on Thursday that the seaside city of Biarritz must rename its La Negresse historic district, possibly ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...

Shutterstock Florida Has Rich Spanish Roots Spain first claimed Florida in 1513 when Juan Ponce de León arrived, and they ...

Royal Bank of Canada was established in Dominica in 1915, Barclays Bank was established in 1925, as a take-over from Colonial ...

A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, ...

Spurred by grassroots protests, Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s mayor, formally apologized in 2021 for the city’s role in slavery, saying it was “time to engrave the great injustice of colonial s ...