I am such a sucker for day trips in touristy small towns; they are everything that is right with America. I love the local ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

A small business program allowed Christopher Dawson to win big contracts if he promised to uplift Native Hawaiians. Instead, ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

Over 400 years ago, English explorer John Smith wrote of several Indigenous settlements along a river in modern-day Virginia.

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

San Diego has a long and diverse heritage. Our inland region reflects the historical influence of Native Americans, Mexicans, Spanish, pioneers, cowboys, gold miners, railroads, the military, as well ...

Explore the fascinating world of horses and discover their unique traits and qualities that make them remarkable animals.

Only one eyewitness account survives: a 1621 letter from the Pilgrim Edward Winslow. He reported that the Wampanoag’s leader, ...

But there is more to this celebration — this annual ritual — than just “turkey and dressing.” Thanksgiving is commonly known as a way to commemorate the colonial Pilgrims’ harvest meal in 1621, which ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...