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  1. Does A Freeborn Englishman Have A Right To Emigrate?

    By Bernard Bailyn, February/March 1986, Volume 37, Issue 2

    Just before the Revolution, newly studied documents reveal, the flight of British subjects to the New World forced a panicky English government to wrestle with this question More >>>

  2. Shipwrecked History: Spanish Ships Found In Pensacola Harbor

    By John E. Worth, Summer 2009, Volume 59, Issue 2

    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 More >>>

  3. Whaling Wife

    By Anonymous (not verified), June 1964, Volume 15, Issue 4

    Being Eliza Williams’s own journal of her thirty-eight-month voyage with her husband, master of the ship Florida, from New Bedford to Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk in pursuit of the great whales More >>>

  4. Roanoke’s Lost Colony Found?

    By James Horn, Spring 2010, Volume 60, Issue 1

    New ideas—and archaeological evidence—may provide answers to colonial North America’s longest-running mystery More >>>

  5. The Charleston Tradition

    By Anthony Harrigan, February 1958, Volume 9, Issue 2

    In the Low Country of South Carolina, English and Huguenot planters raised up a prosperous American city-state with a high culture and a lasting charm. More >>>

  6. The Tragic Dream Of Jean Ribaut

    By Sherwood Harris, October 1963, Volume 14, Issue 6

    Half a century before Jamestown, a Huguenot sea captain planted the flag of France on America’s South Atlantic coast. His hopes were as high as the odds against him More >>>

  7. New England In The Earliest Days

    By A. L. Rowse, August 1959, Volume 10, Issue 5

    Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes More >>>

  8. Digging Up The U.S.

    By Robert Friedman, August/september 1983, Volume 34, Issue 5

    In the underpinnings of our cities, in desolate swampland, beneath coastal waters—wherever the early settlers left traces of their lives—a new generation of archaeologists is uncovering a lost world More >>>

  9. The Sad End of George and Martha

    By Richard Reinhardt, February/March 2000, Volume 51, Issue 1

    A true story of their final days on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart More >>>

  10. The Man Who Invented

    By Joe McCarthy, December 1975, Volume 27, Issue 1

    With a wave of his plastic wand Carl Fisher transformed a tangle of mangrove swamps into a peculiarly American resort More >>>

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