Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing ...

More than nine years in the making, the six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country’s founding struggle ...

Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of ...

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...

This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...

This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...

In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, ...

When Martin enlisted in the Connecticut militia in 1776, the teen was too young to vote but old enough to die. Over the next seven years, he’d experience nearly every major battle and hardship of the ...

The end of October is fast approaching, and soon, we'll be celebrating Halloween. While spooky stuff might not be widely embraced by the general public year-round, Halloween is the one time of year ...

The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...

Chronology of American Indian History -- Part A: Creation to 1715: "The Creation of Beginning (Navajo/Dine)" -- White Mountain Apache Creation Story -- Inupiat Creation Story -- Salish Creation Story ...