When U.S. President Donald Trump started talking about annexing Canada to make it the 51st state, people in Castine, Maine, ...

Its first target is the vast, resource-rich 'Northwest Territory', stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the ...

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

All over Turtle Island—a common Indigenous name for North America, from origin stories ... the walls were covered with maps and photographs of his homeland. At one point he showed me Meares ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

What makes her work notable is its charm and cheerfulness — and the way those qualities mask the darker realities embedded in ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than ...

Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

The historic core of America's auto industry around Detroit still contains many counties with vehicle plants and high concentrations of export potential. The Carolinas' 20th-century textile mills ...

The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point ...

And the first Datsun to be offered in the US was the dowdy 210, sold in America as the 1000, a reference to the capacity of the meek four-cylinder engine found under the hood. Related: The Next GT ...