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It will come as a surprise to many Americans, justly proud of the unparalleled right to free expression granted them by their Constitution, to learn that the first country in the world to abolish censorship was Denmark in 1770. Well over 200 years later, the Danish government and people held admirably firm in defense of this heritage when a group of imams whipped up thousands of their co-religionists around the world into a violent rage over a Danish newspaper’s publishing cartoons of the Prop...

In "A Brave and Cunning Prince," James Horn — of Jamestown Rediscovery — draws on evidence and, necessarily, informed speculation to portray the life, lineage and impact of a Native leader of the first Anglo-Indian Wars in Virginia.

It was Colonial North Carolina's original political center and the site of an early rebellion -- Pasquotank County, its people, history educational institutions and economy are part of what makes this the regional anchor.

The more time I spend in elite circles, the less comfortable I am with the way they treat people like me.

Archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia, have uncovered burnt deposits dating from a church burned to the ground in the first revolt in the colonies, a century before the American Revolution.

Berry was born near South Molton in Devonshire, England, the second of seven sons and one of nine children of Elizabeth Moore Berry and Daniel Berry, the vicar of Molland and Knowstone. He was christened on January 7, 1636, in his father’s Knowstone Parish. In 1652, because of Daniel Berry’s loyalty to the Crown and devotion to the Church of England, local supporters of the Commonwealth drove him from his church and vicarage. John Berry went to sea on a merchant ship out of Plymouth, but a ...

Beverley was probably born in Middlesex County, the eldest child of from four to six sons, three of whom survived childhood, and one daughter of the immigrant Robert Beverley, usually referred to as Major Robert Beverley, and his second wife, Mary Keeble Beverley. He was most likely born about 1667 or 1668 and was of legal age before September 1, 1690, when he succeeded his elder half brother, Peter Beverley, as legal guardian of their younger brother John Beverley. Beverley was educated in Eng...

SUMMARY Robert Beverley, also known as Major Robert Beverley or as Robert Beverley the immigrant, served as clerk of the House of Burgesses from 1677 until his death in 1687 despite attempts by the Privy Council and various royal governors to displace him. Born in England, Beverley moved to Virginia after the death of his first wife. There, he served as surveyor of Middlesex County, justice of the peace, a church vestryman, a major in the militia, and, in 1676, acting attorney general. He...

Bland was the son of John Bland and Susanna de Deblere Bland. He was born probably in London, where he was christened on January 6, 1630, in the parish of Saint Antholin, Budge Row. His father died in April 1632, after which his elder brother John Bland assumed direction of the family’s extensive commercial interests. As a young man Theodorick Bland resided for several years in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, where the family engaged in the wine trade. In the mid-1640s he succeeded his brother...

Bland, the fifth of seventeen children of John Bland and Susanna de Deblere Bland, was born probably in London, where he was christened in the parish of Saint Stephen Coleman Street on February 5, 1614. Bland’s father, who died in 1632, was a prominent London merchant and shipowner, an investor in the Virginia Company of London that founded the colony of Virginia, a member of its London council, and one of the proprietors of Martin’s Hundred. When Edward Bland was about twenty years old, h...