"Defying Empire" at the Haggerty Museum shows how American colonials battled with the British through images and words in artwork.

As the death Thursday of Queen Elizabeth II prompted an outpouring of grief from millions across the world, it also revived criticism of her legacy, highlighting the complicated feelings of those who ...

PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

Other than the British Empire, there were several nations and empires in the world's history that colonised other regions for prolonged periods of time. Some of these nations even fought with each ...

To U.S. business last week came a reasoned and challenging statement of what British Liberal opinion believes may be the economic future of the British Isles and Britain’s Colonial Empire. Free of the ...

A RECENTLY published article, "Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation in the Colonial Empire", by H. A. Tempany, G. M. Roddan and L. Lord (Emp. J. Exp, Agric, 12, 121; 1944), brings the story of soil ...

As the Sept. 8 death of Queen Elizabeth II prompted an outpouring of grief from millions across the world, it also revived criticism of her legacy, highlighting the complicated feelings of those who ...