The Institute for International Maritime Research, based in North Carolina, is looking for more objects from the colonial period.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Europeans moved to colonial America in part to escape religious oppression.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

As a result,he says other objects from colonial life may be under the waters of the Roanoke Sound.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The National Park Service says early colonial settlers and land developers thought the Everglades had little value.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Newspapers that came later reprinted information from papers in Europe so as not to offend colonial officials.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

It accused the colonial government, for example, of not doing enough to protect ships from pirates.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

On July fourth,seventeen seventy-six, colonial leaders approved the final Declaration of Independence for the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

But later, during the American Revolution, colonial troops fought against the British at Fort Ticonderoga.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

During that time, he found what was left of an old well from colonial days.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

Dating back to colonial times, the government has supported programs to train skilled workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

We went to war with Spain,they said, to free Cuba from its colonial masters...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

By June, fighting had already taken place between colonial forces and Britain.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

During colonial times, Vermonters fought off territorial claims by bordering colonies.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

He says the idea came from England, America's former colonial power.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Objects from the colonial period include an Indian smoking pipe.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In eighteen ninety-five, Cuban rebels revolted against the colonial government.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

While there,the soldiers apparently dug for evidence of colonial life.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Molly had broken colonial law by marrying a black man.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

France helped the American colonial armies defeat the British.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Some newspapers in colonial America supported British rule.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The newspaper had criticized the colonial governor.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The video for "Liberian Girl" assembles some of what were then Hollywood's biggest names on the set of a colonial-era movie about Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

These delicately carved houseboats have been moored along the tranquil waters of Dal Lake and Nagin Lake of Srinagar since British colonial days.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16