Iroquois

The Founders terrorized and exterminated Native Americans instead of learning from them.

Colonial lessons in civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."

A new book provides a framework that engages with “big history” or “deep history” while avoiding explanations that flirt with forms of determinism.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

In a new book, historian Nicole Eustace reveals Indigenous calls for meaningful restitution and reconciliation rather than retribution.

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

“The connection between a hot temper and an empty stomach,” explained through a history of colonial interactions with indigenous peoples.

The actions of one New Jersey royal governor demonstrate a rare case of impartial justice for Native Americans.

Let us let the ghosts of the megafauna rise, but let us leave the old imperialists to lie in their graves undisturbed.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?