Wright was a skillful executive and a fierce leader of the colonial loyalists who opposed the American Revolution. He is now the subject of an engaging biography, “From Empire to Revolution ...

As the American Revolutionary War raged, thousands of slaves fled their owners and joined ranks with the British army, buoyed by hopes of winning freedom and defeating their colonial oppressors.

History celebrates winners and often forgets losers. Yet it is worth remembering on this Independence Day that Americans both won and lost the Revolutionary war.

Subsequent discoveries helped to confirm that the shipwreck was from the colonial period, from the late 1800s, and more specifically that it was carrying British Loyalists.

For over a century the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) has been an association dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the history of the Episcopal Church.

However, soon upon arrival, the Black Loyalists quickly discovered that the British colonial officials in the Maritimes reneged on the promises made in New York and elsewhere.

Though these loyalists accounted for roughly one third of the colonial population, their role in the war has often been minimized (or, in the version taught in high-school classrooms, overlooked ...

The work will primarily focus on what daily life was like from 1780 to 1782 during the British occupation for free people of color, enslaved people, patriot sympathizers, loyalists, the British ...

Colonial newspapers, merchant logs, post-war claims and personal journals provided valuable insights into daily life in Charleston during the American Revolution, including patriot and loyalist ...