July 4 is a day many Americans celebrate to honor the country’s independence from Great Britain. For many Native Americans, ...

Ohio has a secret it’s been keeping from the rest of America, and it’s hiding in plain sight just outside the tiny village of Perrysville – Mohican-Memorial State Forest and State Park, a 4,525-acre ...

Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...

“Like father, like son” — that saying holds true for Alan Bentley, 67, and his son, Travis, 44, of the Sugar Loaf Community.

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression.

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be taken from their parents and placed in foster care ...

Tribal nations demand consultation on public lands sell-off plans, warning of threats to sovereignty and ancestral homelands ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

More than 250 million acres of federally owned land are eligible to help meet that quota, according to The Wilderness Society. The bill exempts national parks, monuments and wilderness areas, and also ...