Apache

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.

How the forgotten fight for the West exposes the meaning of the Confederate flag.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.

From prehistoric caves, through Aztecs, Mormons, Beat poets, Jean-Paul Sartre and a British MP.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.