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Latin America's colonial period was far less Catholic than it might seem − despite the Inquisition's attempts to police religion

One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: As history books tell it, the Europeans brought their religion to the ...
Time

Forget King Leopold’s Ghost. There Are Still Skeletons in His Closet

It would take a determined visitor to the Royal Museum for Central Africa to locate the life-sized likeness of one of history’s most brutal colonial rulers carved from ivory. The statue of Belgium‘s ...
WAVY-TV

Archaeologists in Virginia unearth colonial-era garden with clues about its enslaved gardeners

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in ...

India scraps colonial-era railway uniforms to erase British legacy

India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to ...
The Durango Herald

Archaeologists find Colonial-era secrets

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y.– An archaeological dig at a Colonial military site in the southern Adirondacks of New York has turned up thousands of artifacts, from butchered animal bones to uniform buttons, along ...
WGBH

Springfield museum exhibit focuses on Colonial-era maps and the stories they tell — or don't tell

At the Springfield Museums in western Massachusetts, the most recent exhibit connected to an aspect of the region’s Native American culture is on display at the Wood Museum of Springfield History.
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Archaeologists in Virginia unearth colonial-era garden with clues about its enslaved gardeners

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