[Editor’s Note: Often passed, seldom visited by outsiders, British Columbia’s Central Coast is home to the continent’s longest-settled places and most enduring peoples...

Columbus Day became a federal holiday to commemorate the landing of Christopher Columbus in the “New World” and his achievements in 1937, but throughout history those achievements ...

At the height of its existence, the Inca Empire ran some 2,500 miles along the Andean range from Colombia to Chile, had more than 10 million subjects and was home to Cuzco, a city ...

We've made it pretty clear that history has done an awful job of representing the persecution of Native Americans after European contact...

When the “ 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America ” was posted May 15 by Cracked.com is started something of an Internet sensation; and a spike in people searc...

In the late 1800s, it is believed that the Micmac Native Americans of Nova Scotia used an herbal remedy—a botanical infusion derived from a species of the pitcher plant—to treat sm...