It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in the Americas. He arrived in modern-day Newfoundland around the year 1000, ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

BOSTON — In a city steeped in history, few buildings bear a legacy as enduring and consequential as the Old North Church — a ...

Every now and then, two books appear that seem to be in quiet conversation, even when they come from opposite directions. Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations" looks across centuries of North American ...

Introduction : interconnecting and diverging narratives / Martha Hodes -- The hidden history of Mestizo America / Gary B. Nash -- "They need wives" : Métissage and the regulation of sexuality in ...

NMAI copy 39088012436358 is gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of ...