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 ...

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

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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.

Explore the Age of Discovery in US history, simplified and shortened! Learn about the key explorers, voyages, and the impact ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated with the history of the United States as has this one. As society has ...

“I have in my possession a secret map made in Germany by Hitler’s ... who by 1941 “was basically running British intelligence in North America, doing various operations to annoy the Germans ...

Most of Africa is north of the equator, though on many mental maps it is mostly in the southern hemisphere directly across the Atlantic from South America. Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another ...

North America’s geological core has persisted for ... By analyzing the waves, scientists can reverse engineer a map of Earth’s innards, Hua says. And the researchers sought to conduct this ...

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." ...