Over 400 years ago, English explorer John Smith wrote of several Indigenous settlements along a river in modern-day Virginia.

Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...

The problem, Zaaijer explained, is that algorithms used in precision medicine models overwhelming are built on DNA with ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

Now that November’s Native American Heritage Month has passed, it’s worth taking a moment to look back at the history, ...

In the summer of 2024, excavations along Virginia's Fones Cliffs unearthed approximately 11,000 artifacts—pottery shards, ...

Get rich quick schemes, Florida Bust, these are the towns that once bustled, then disappeared from Palm Beach County.

UNC's campus sits on the ancestral lands of the Occaneechi, Shakori, Eno and Sissipahaw peoples, and the University benefited ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

Thousands of artifacts were found at Fones Cliffs, an area that was once home to a Virginia tribe that John Smith wrote about ...

Each fall, when the oak trees turn color in the foothills above Highland, I think about my grandparents, my parents James and Rowena Ramos, and the generations who lived and prayed on this land long ...