Comanche Nation

Dustin Tahmahkera details the life of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker.

A long history of disrespect, dispossession and mass slaughter is crucial to understanding the case.

New research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.

Teaching accurate history about white supremacy may be painful, but it's essential.

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

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

The Supreme Court punts on Hernandez v. Mesa, leaving the Constitution lost in the borderlands.

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

In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

What we remember when we remember the Alamo.

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.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

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

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

Decade by decade, firearms have become deadlier—and tightened their grip on our collective imagination.

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.

84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.

“European and Indian men—as captors, brokers, and buyers—used captured and enslaved women to craft relationships of trade and reciprocity with one another.”