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 ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

But covering a mere 22 square miles—barely a third the area of Washington, D.C.—the colony’s population was quickly dwarfed by English emigration to North America and the Caribbean.

With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place ...

Privileged Americans have historically not looked at the benefits of moving to become an expat in Honduras. Latin America has always been portrayed as quite a scary and undesirable place to be ...

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 ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now ... SOCIETY Throughout colonial North America, most of the English captured by Indians ...

Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace. She didn’t get a chance to return until she was ...

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 ...