Many believe that this initial colonization event ... X that shared affinities to European or possibly Eurasian populations may have also entered the Americas prior to the last glacial maximum ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

President Trump says we are going to Mars, and his friend Elon Musk has demonstrated a capacity to make it happen.

Columbus, often credited with ushering in European colonization of the Americas, has a life story cloaked in uncertainty. While he is generally accepted as being of Genoese origin, some scholars ...

For a long time, researchers have sought to estimate the size of North America’s Indigenous population before European ...

A new study published in the journal Nature provides compelling evidence that syphilis originated in the Americas and spread globally through European colonization, challenging long-held ...

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is an effort to rework the historical narrative about that geographic area. In good English that ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas, but it was his arrival ... up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation ...