RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal three-judge panel on Wednesday allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map aimed ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A battle lasting less than an hour south of Norfolk in December 1775 between British forces and colonial militia was a ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Palestinian identity can “upend the whole world order, if done right, if spun right, if we activate it enough. And I think ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

But to millions of Indigenous Americans, the story of Thanksgiving is also closely intertwined with their history of invasion ...

Step through the doors of the Museum of Native American History, and you aren't just entering a building -- you're standing in the shadow of a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

Historian Elizabeth Ellis is a key player in an exhibition that brings to light the little-known diplomatic history. An ...

Colonial officials did not simply misunderstand Native engineering, they actively worked to erase it from the record, ...

Artist Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 painting of Gen. George Washington leading his troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour ...

A picture-perfect village sits right near this shimmering lake in New York's Catskills, which was nicknamed "glimmerglass" by ...