B efore European colonization reshaped the Americas, Native American tribes and nations thrived across the continent. Many of these groups built advanced societies with large populations, ...

ANTH copy 39088019677087 gift of Torben C. Rick. "Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. Eastern North America is one of only a handful of places in the world where people first ...

Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...

Explore Leif Erikson Day, honoring the Norse explorer who reached North America before Columbus, and its cultural ...

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

The first people to arrive in the Western Hemisphere were Indigenous Americans, who were descended from an ancestral group of ...

Explore the tragic and complex history of what happened to Native American populations after European colonization of North America. This simplified U.S. history lesson covers forced removals, broken ...

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler Photographs by ...

This article appears as part of Native America, a four-part series that explores the world created by America’s First Peoples. Reach back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, ...

deRivera, C. E., Steves, B. P., Ruiz, Gregory M., Fofonoff, Paul W., and Hines, Anson H., editors. 2007. Northward spread of marine NIS along western North America ...