On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th century? Or that South Africa became integrated into a ...

Estevan Park in Tucson is named after the first African American explorer of the southwestern United States, and some call ...