... the British to colonize America in the 16th century originated as a faulty business model devised by a consortium of politically savvy promoters known in author Alan Taylor's American Colonies installment (Viking, due Nov. 12) of The ...

... in 1913, he managed to keep America out of the Allied (primarily English, French, and Russian) Forces' Great War (1914-1918) against Germany— until a German U-boat submarine sank the British liner Lusi- tania off the southern Irish coast in ...