Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Talk about remarkable economic coincidences. In 1925, exactly one hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes wrote an economic pamphlet entitled “The economic consequences of Mr. Churchill.” In that ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

Cocoa became the backbone of the Gold Coast economy in the early 20th century. Railways accelerated its expansion by linking farming zones to ports. Farmers along rail corridors enjoyed better market ...