Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

The career of photographer Leibovitz (Wonderland) is celebrated with this dazzling collection of portraits she took of women in the 20th and 21st century. The book contains two Continue reading » ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

Ancient horses roamed the North American continent for millions of years. And many, many years later, horses played an integral role in building the foundation of the United States. However, there was ...

It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in ...

Have you ever heard of Cahokia? Not known by many, Cahokia was actually North America's first city, long before European ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

In the barren lands of the Eastern Oregon desert, a team of University of Oregon archaeologists, field archaeologists and volunteers sift through dirt, rocks, rain water and 18,000-year-old camel ...

The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them. Anthony Palumbi’s book, “At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores ...

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles Samuel I. Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps ...