Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Some see Queen Elizabeth II's death as an opportunity to acknowledge the struggles of those who were affected by British ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded approximately 11 times, and its population has surged 135 times. It became the ...

PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy. When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population ...