Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, ...

A history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia that ...

America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through ...

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

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

From mac and cheese to fry bread and beyond, explore of America’s favorite comfort foods—one from every state, plus a few ...

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

The National Garden of American Heroes, an idea Trump first proposed in 2020, is supposed to open at an unnamed location in ...

TO begin with, the Philippines would have been truly independent as early as 1898 had it not been for the United States ...

During Trump’s first term, after all, the United States gave Israel and Netanyahu almost everything they asked for. But this time, Trump is bucking the prime minister, and Netanyahu and his supporters ...