Colonial North America
Artifacts
- Aztec Pottery Discovered at Site of First Florida Settlement
- Pensacola, Florida
- Artifacts from the Hernando de Soto Expedition
- Tallahassee, Florida
- Ring Belonging to Shakespeare's Friend, William Strachev
- Jamestown, Virginia
Stories
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From the Archives
1559 Shipwrecks Found in Pensacola
A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out
The Deerfield Massacre
One terrible night in 1704 came to symbolize the whole struggle for supremacy on the North American continent
Roanoke's Lost Colony Found?
New ideas—and archaeological evidence—may provide answers to colonial North America’s longest-running mystery
The Hunt for the Regicides
They had sent King Charles to the scaffold without remorse. Now they were fugitives in New England with a big price on their heads
Champlain Among the Mohawk, 1609
A Soldier-Humanist Fights a War for Peace in North America
The Spirit of ’54
Two decades before the Revolution, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. Benjamin Franklin thought it could have prevented the war. It didn’t—but did give us our Constitution.
Sites
- Castillo de San Marcos
- St. Augustine, Florida
- Fort Ticonderoga
- Ticonderoga, New York
- Berkeley Plantation
- Charles City, Virginia