The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

I'm Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Westward expansion in the U .S. did not come easy or did not come early on. The ...

When World War Two broke out in September 1939, Britain called upon countries from across the British Empire for help ... with over 1.5 million Indian troops signing up to fight.

In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and ... that Eliot's decision to represent ...