Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

A tale where fear met power: the Salem Witch Trials. They weren’t merely about witchcraft, but control. Set in 17th-century ...

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s spurious claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but the conservative ...

Hailed a pioneer hero, Dennis Hannafin crossed into the Great Sioux Nation, violating a federal treaty, and fought Native ...

Miami-Dade (1836): Originally just called Dade County after Francis L. Dade, a major in the U.S. Army during the Second ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.

The second oldest military school sits in Pennsylvania. And along with its military history — plus a darker past — it ...

The stories of Minnesota’s Southeast Asian communities and the state’s military veterans will be highlighted during a two-day ...

There will be an American Revolution Preview & Talk at Dobisky Visitors Center on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Monday, October 13 is Indigenous People’s Day. Between 1776 and 1887, the U.S. seized more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans by treaty and executive order. According to the National Park ...