The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly enslaved Blacks and free Blacks on the African continent. Liberia was ...

Explore how early American colonists learned soil stewardship the hard way. Discover the impacts of livestock, deforestation, ...

With 2026 bringing the 250th anniversary of the United States, will we see a revival of interest in colonial American furniture? It’s happened with previous anniversaries. The Centennial celebration ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...