The America 250 kickoff event, held Feb. 21, featured a number of historical presentations focusing in on events and people in southeastern North Carolina — including one unsung hero who fought ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

Every now and then, two books appear that seem to be in quiet conversation, even when they come from opposite directions. Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations" looks across centuries of North American ...

It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in the Americas. He arrived in modern-day Newfoundland around the year 1000, ...

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...