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The religious dissenters mainly moved to New England. Which was, arguably, at MOST a third of the major efforts of North American colonization, though they are often given way more historical attention than the remaining two-thirds. In large part due to Whig History and the need to decrease...

That has as much to do with the nature of the tribes in the region and their population numbers compared to the Meso-American tribes. The East Coast Tribes were much lower in population, most were nomadic to semi-nomadic, with their largest settlements being effectively small towns. There were...

Yeah, I was going to say, the border between things was very reminiscent of the old Iron Curtain line in Europe. As such, I feel like the recent destructive influence of Communism that is barely a generation removed might have a greater impact immediate impact as opposed to genetic drift...

I've done an extensive write up concerning the morality of the American Revolution here, but one thing that stands out in the summary of what lead up to it was the sheer, well, incompetence of the British handling of the American colonies, they did almost everything perfectly to drive the...

[citation needed] Everything I've ever seen concerning Lincoln indicated he had no intention of ending the institution of slavery when he was elected. The entire secession was, save for Virginia and a few of the other of the states that seceded post-Sumpter, a temper tantrum over losing an...

Actual controversial take: Lexington and Concord were the less important incident that happened that week, much more critical to the success of the American Revolution was the Gunpowder Incident which happened one day later in Virginia, as it resulted in the complete removal of British control...