The sixth season of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story focuses on the mysterious lost colony of Roanoke.

Complaints that the lottery is a regressive tax on the poor have been around since the beginning of the lottery in America.

The Stamp Act of 1765, which inspired the “taxation without representation” cry, imposed taxes that outraged specific groups of people.

The Currency Act of 1764 returned the restrictions of 1751: banning colonists from printing their own legal tender bills.

Many 18th-century households included not only relatives and slaves, but also indentured servants, people sold into bondage for a specified length of time.

The Birth of a Nation—1915's blockbuster hit and the most popular movie of its day—was released 100 years ago this month.