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Starting from Kingsport, groups of hikers will trek 10 miles a day, passing along an ax symbolic of Boone’s axmen to the next ...
In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.
The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran ...
Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...
As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...
The Bandung Conference opened a new era of South-South economic cooperation. Its resolution on economic cooperation called ...
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
By Roz Shorenstein, Mitch Siegler, Atri Macherla and Debbie Israel Like many school districts, Pajaro Valley faces some tough choices. One choice, however, is easy: don’t renew Community ...
A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...
The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...
New Bern is not that town. Founded in 1710, this charming waterfront gem sits at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers, making it one of North Carolina’s oldest cities. And boy, does it wear ...
He pointed out that many African societies had sophisticated knowledge systems long before colonial rule, referencing the Benin Bronzes, the Nok civilisation’s ironworks, and the Nsibidi writing ...