American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...

A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.