Tecumseh

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

Tracing the currents of American history that run through the Great Lakes region.

How the spectacle of the 1806 solar eclipse impacted the national consciousness.

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.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.

Apparently some people communed with spirits to locate the first underground oil reserves.

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.