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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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