Settler colonialism refers to a specific form of colonialism where settlers from a foreign country establish permanent communities and exert control over the indigenous population and their land. It ...

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

More accurate data is readily available for Germany, which only became a colonial power at a very late stage. In the case of Germany, it is quite clear that the majority of the colonies were a ...

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the ...

June 5, 2024 — In this first session of Asia Society India's Cultural Encounters: South Asian History in the 'Third Space' series, experts come together to bring out the key colonial interactions, ...