Based on what we know from indigenous oral histories and observations by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries, it’s likely that Cahokia was founded by leaders—or maybe one charismatic leader—who ...

The city’s largest mound, Monk’s Mound (named by French Trappists in the 1800s), held a large building where Cahokia’s political and spiritual leaders convened. At its base, a town center ...

Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, and at its peak, the metropolis near modern-day St. Louis was bigger than London. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Of course, that scenario presumes we know that Cahokia had such a single leader, which we don't. We don't even know what this place was called—the name Cahokia is borrowed from a tribe that live ...

Once one of the most powerful tribal leaders of his time, Chief Pontiac was murdered in Cahokia in 1769 and is believed to be buried in the heart of today’s downtown St. Louis. Once one of the ...

This is the United States that Francis Spufford imagines in his atmospheric new novel, “Cahokia Jazz.” Spufford, one of our most powerful writers of wayward historical fiction, sets his book ...

This is the premise of Francis Spufford’s dazzling new novel, “Cahokia Jazz.” Spufford, an award-winning British writer, tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the ...