A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright ...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

While preparing her 1992 book, Africans in Colonial America, Hall discovered court documents that indicated where enslaved Africans said they came from. The information was overlooked for more ...

These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a ...

Palisades celebrates a win against Pen Argyl on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, during a Colonial League semifinal softball game at Cynthia L. Blaschak Field at Cedar Crest College in Allentown.