Creek Confederacy

And what Congress can learn from his efforts.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

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 Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

An understanding of the history of gunpowder might be able to tell us how and why guns have become so widely accessible in the present-day United States.

Lynn Riggs wrote the play that served as the basis of the hit 1943 musical.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

The truth about policies of Native American removal.

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.

The amazing true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who patrolled the Wild West.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.