Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, Georgia also was late to secure independence.

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Tobacco being loaded onto ships in the James River, Virginia, circa 1661. Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists were under the control of Great ...