Mississippi’s warts-and-all approach to reflecting its history as part of the state’s official commemoration of the nation’s ...

Long before ancient civilizations in the Old World, Native American hunter-gatherers were already playing games of chance using carefully crafted bone dice more than 12,000 years ago. New research ...

Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. That’s far earlier than the ...

New research shows that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world.

A new study claims Native Americans have been using dice to gamble and explore probability for more than 12,000 years.

A new study suggests that humans were playing with probability during the Ice Age—and that dice were invented 6,000 years ...

Carlinville Winning Communities is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with a three-month series of presentations and ...

The first Greek person to ever set foot in America was a man named Theodoros Griego, and he arrived in the country in 1528.

As the United States prepares to mark 250 years since its founding, Ken Burns is urging viewers to revisit that moment anew. The award-winning documentarian – whose work has chronicled everything from ...

Deep divisions over how Americans remember their past are coming into sharper focus as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff reports for her ...

Ancient dice dating back 12,000 years suggest early humans understood chance and probability long before mathematics emerged.

When people talk about the Columbian Exchange, the headline is always disease. But not all diseases behave the same. There’s a crucial difference between everyday bugs and true plagues. Regular ...