Discover how supply and demand influenced early American agriculture, from the rise of cotton after the cotton gin to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Have you ever heard the name Billy Caldwell?

Revolutionary War history is filled with heroes and villains, and which is which depends on which side of the Atlantic you were sitting. Here in the United States, our history textbooks mention every ...

A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University and the author of Violence over the Land: Indians ...

Discover how early 19th century American agriculture fueled .....shaped westward expansion, and built the foundation of the U.S. economy.

Many Americans know more about the violence inflicted upon Native American peoples in the United States than they do about Native survival and influence in the nation’s development, says Yale ...

John Carter Brown Library Director Karin Wulf reflected on her work at a Tuesday book launch event hosted by the Department ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...

Indigenous perspectives have often been excluded from U.S. historical narratives. A Yale University professor hopes to spotlight the importance of those perspectives in a new book. Ned Blackhawk is a ...

A rare copy of Paul Revere’s historic engraving of the Boston Massacre is coming up at auction in Virginia this fall. There are only 29 surviving copies of the 1770 artwork, which became a powerful ...