Iroquois

The pawpaw is finding champions again after colonizers' dismissal, increasing globalization and economic needs.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Pittsburgh as a symbol of America itself.

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

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

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.

The Seneca Nation and the building of the Kinzua Dam.

The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embraced.

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

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

The First World War prompted the politicization of nearly all aspects of American life.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.