Chesapeake's history goes far back into Virginia's colonial roots.

Although the 296th Infantry is an Army National Guard unit with colonial roots, those roots are in a Spanish colony, not an English one.

She had known Flushing when it was little more than a village, and she had a passionate interest in the region's colonial roots.

While the Biafran War is often thought of as a civil war, the colonial roots that caused much of the tension leading to the conflict cannot be ignored.

Beginning in the late 19th century, America began to look back romantically upon its colonial roots and the country started reflecting this nostalgia in its architecture.

He traced the history of public education in America back to its colonial roots.

Ranging from studies of Kigali's strong colonial roots to emergent cities such as Abuja in Nigeria, the images present an alternative vision of Africa.

This apparent fear of homosexuality had colonial roots.

By eschewing "Filipino" and "Filipinas" which had colonial roots, Bonifacio and his cohorts "sought to form a national identity."

There are only thirty current units of the U.S. Army with colonial roots.