United States, history of the.Ahlstrom, Sydney E., A Religious History of the American People (1972).Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History (1990) ; Blum, John.Preston, Daniel, Twentieth Century United States History (1992) ; Schlereth.America, a vast nation that arose from a scattering of British colonial outposts in the New World.Canada and established several settlements there.English colonization of the region along the Atlantic coast.ROANOKE on the Virginia coast.1607 became JAMESTOWN, the first permanent English colony in the New World.10,000 who had immigrated, only 2,000 remained alive.