The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

TO begin with, the Philippines would have been truly independent as early as 1898 had it not been for the United States ...

Kicking off a three-week focus on the American Revolution with the film “Liberty! The American Revolution,” the Adirondack ...

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 ...

The heat waves occurring in Europe, North America and China throughout July would not have been possible without global warming, according to a rapid attribution analysis by World Weather ...

Ecologists estimate that there were roughly 30 million white-tailed deer in North America on the eve of European colonization—about the same number as today.

The results confirm that M. lepromatosis was already widespread in North and South America long before European colonization and provide insights into the current genetic diversity of pathogenic ...

Greg Grandin’s America, América: A New History of the New World, by contrast, is an ambitious effort to get (North) Americans to recognize they share much common heritage with Latin America ...

In North America, we are stopping shipments from North America plants and European imports effective today. This is a temporary move until we assess the full impact of planned tariffs on pricing ...

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