In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...
Meet the head of the First Americans Museum, helping tell the real and continuing story of the nation's original founders ...
On Thanksgiving morning each year, Native Americans hold a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz island, in the San Francisco Bay. It honors Indigenous resistance over the years and the historic 1969 Native ...
A series of turquoise signs along southbound U.S. 89 near Tuba City, Arizona, proclaims the Navajo Nation’s resiliency. (File photo by Sierra Alvarez/Cronkite News) As Immigration and Customs ...
In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...
In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...