American Indian Wars

How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.

White racial victimhood was a primary source of power for settlers who served as shock troops for the nation.

"History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."

How a massacre on March 22, 1622 irrevocably shaped relations between Indigenous Americans and English colonists.

What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.

Conflict between American settlers/revolutionaries and the Cherokee nation erupted in the early years of the Revolution.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.

From homesteaders to tourists to the U.S. Army, railroads flooded the Great Plains with people who saw bison as pests, amusements, or opportunities for profit.

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

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.

The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, an oft overlooked conflict that continues to shape the politics and culture(s) of North America.

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

A history of imperial forgetting.

A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.

A 1763 massacre by colonial settlers exposed the the irreconcilable contradictions of conquest by people concerned with civility.

Year-by-year maps of homesteading claims and the dispossession of Native Americans.