TRENTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- At the Old Barracks Museum, historical interpreters take you on a tour through the times before, during, and after the American Revolution. The building was first ...

In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...

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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 ...

CU Adjunct Professor Peter H. Wood’s seminal 1974 book on race, rice and rebellion in Colonial America recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with an updated version If Peter H. Wood wants to stump ...

In “Indigenous Continent,” Pekka Hamalainen aims to upend the nation’s grand narrative, putting Native people and Native power at the center. By Jennifer Schuessler Americans may know the story of ...

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. In the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New England found itself beset by ...

advisor: Paul Mapp email: [[qwu11]] Current Research: global Early America, history of capitalism, the early US-China Ocean Commerce Qiong Wu is a first-year Ph.D. student at W&M. She previously ...

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 ...

The gunboat USS Philadelphia, the oldest surviving American fighting vessel and an American cultural treasure, is being preserved at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in part ...

Advisor: Catherine E. Kelly Email: [[kasmitherman]] Current Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Early America, History of the Body, Sex, & Gender Kirsten Smitherman earned both her bachelor’s degree (’22 ...