Indians frequently came to colonial communities, not only to trade but also to marry, live and work.
Her freshman seminar, "Listening In: Sonic Culture in American History," had been reading historian Richard Rath's book about sound in early America, including a chapter on the role that bell-ringing and public noise played in Colonial communities.
The expedition was to be paid for by holding other English colonial communities hostage after destroying Charles Town.
A contagious disease that visited colonial communities intermittently, this virus caused high fever, rash and sometimes death.
Gates and his team dig into their deep American roots in early colonial communities, and meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories from the Mayflower to Ellis Island.
Indeed, the cross-national comparative work alerted the UK research team to the evident gulf between health research that foregrounds migration (and which tends to focus on recent immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers) and that which foregrounds ethnicity (which tends to focus on established post-colonial communities) and the potential benefits of integrating these strands of work.
Whether they picked a colonial farming community or a futuristic town in the wake of a zombie apocalypse, they would still answer the same kinds of questions: Where is your site?
Ossipee (the county seat), Moultonboro, and Madison all were colonial farming communities.
Just as rural New England began its economic decline, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Quilombo, also called mocambo, in colonial Brazil, a community organized by fugitive slaves.
