Most of the 1600s — from the first settlements until the Atlantic seaboard was in full possession of the British — were years of constant conflict: colonists against the native Indians, colony ...

Nigel Smith is intent on correcting an injustice. It may be more than four centuries old, but for him, it is high time to make amends. A professor of English, Smith is on a mission to bring to light ...

The move to a republic is the final step in the island’s journey that began in the early 1600s when English settlers claimed it for the British crown, which maintained control over its politics ...