These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in North America were established by the ...

That genetic traces of the original population disappear completely is unusual, especially in South America,” said geneticist ...

From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

Royal Street feels like a movie set that somehow escaped Hollywood and decided to put down roots in Louisiana – except everything here is authentically, wonderfully real. The town’s origins date back ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo, held at the nearby Louisiana State Penitentiary, offers a glimpse into a tradition that’s as uniquely Louisiana as gumbo. Inmates compete in events like “Guts and Glory” while ...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Astronaut Nichole Ayers, aboard the International Space Station, captured a stunning display of the Northern Lights over North America. While photographing severe storms, Ayers unexpectedly ...

Thunderbolts* recently surpassed the domestic haul of MCU flop Eternals and is on its way to demolishing Captain America: The First Avenger. The MCU movie is whiskers away from beating the Chris ...

"Up to this point, we didn't believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America," said archaeologist ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 ...