Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.

A new study published in American Antiquity revealed insights into the history of domestic cats in the Americas, including ...

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The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Coinciding with National Park Week 2025, this Washington Examiner series looks at how to celebrate America's national parks ...

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Columbus is widely credited with opening the door to European colonization ... U.S. grew up hearing the phrase “Columbus discovered America,” this narrative has become increasingly controversial.

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each ...

By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American philosopher ... what he called “the colonial library”: the 19th- and 20th-century accounts of Africa by European anthropologists ...