This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first face of the first Americans belongs to an unlucky teenage girl who fell to her death in a Yucatán cave some ...

This is American Routes, I'm Nick Spitzer. It’s no secret, here and worldwide, we’re in a time of turmoil, in government, political attacks, secrecy and war. We asked you, our listeners, to ...

American Routes, produced in New Orleans, presents a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots ...