Excavations at the site of a Native American town on Hatteras Island have yielded a mix of Indian and European artifacts, suggesting that some of the stranded colonists were adopted by the ...

Manifest Destiny emerged prominently in the 19th-century United States, proclaiming that Americans had a divinely ordained mission to expand across the continent. Advocates selectively cited biblical ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

For others, rock markings and similar Native American drawings are simply evidence of the dynamic cultures that existed on this continent long before the first Europeans arrived. “Figures on the ...

Sometimes the clues to past seismic activity are in Native American place names ... means that they were hearing earthquakes long before Europeans came to that locality." Then there's the regular ...