Map: The British Colonies By the early 1600s, England was eager to gain a colonial foothold on the North American continent. The first enduring settlement was founded at Jamestown in Virginia in 1607.

Satellite images and before and after pictures show how smoke has shrouded the east coast of Canada and the US.

As one historian told Mental Floss, the map of South America “was a fiction forged by the British intelligence service.” ...

The Proposed Confederation of British North America, its Advantages and Difficulties The Assembling of a Conference at Quebec Proposed Guaranteed Independence of the Confederacy, &c., &c.

A highly interesting account of explorations made in British North America has just been laid before the Parliament of Great Britain, which is full of facts and suggestions of value to ourselves ...

Many peoples contributed to “the Peopling of British America:” Dutch, Germans, Swedes, even Lapps established colonies on the Atlantic coast. Manhattan from its earliest days was polyglot and ...

For the first time in history, all British North American embassies are going to be headed by women — showing a broader shift in British diplomacy.

The decision to sell a piece of North American history has sparked intense debate at Old South Church in Boston. The church's historian says the book is simply not theirs to sell.

Imagine a world very different from our own, where North America developed not into the stable geopolitical regions we know today, but Balkanized into smaller empires, territories and republics ...