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 ...

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

Hungarian-American sculptor Peter Toth, at his Florida studio, has created 74 statues of native peoples in North and South America, part of his Trail of the Whispering Giants collection.

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

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern half of ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

Ancestors of present-day Menominee people, a federally recognized Native American tribe, grew maize and other crops in densely clustered earthen ridges from around 1,000 to 400 years ago ...

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

Along a forested bend of the Menominee River in northern Michigan, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient agricultural system that may upend conventional narratives about precolonial farming in ...

A report shows that both Mead and Powell have "reached alarmingly low levels, holding just one-third of their usual capacity." ...

Here are six volunteers who make a difference at National Parks and other federal lands, from an 8-year-old who does the ...

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to ...