After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. To pay it off, it sold Native land it didn’t control. This is the story of how a ...
In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...
One of the best-known images relating to England’s fledgling American colonies depicts an episode that ended in the massacre of hundreds of indigenous men, women and children. Adopting a bird’s-eye ...
Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” As we approach the 250th anniversary of the ...
LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) - - A bill to dedicate a stretch of M-22 in Peshawbestown to Native American volunteer Civil War soldiers of Company K remains stalled in the Michigan House, ...
The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted from ...
The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans stood on the banks of the Hudson River in the autumn of 1777, armed with flintlock muskets and a fierce loyalty to a cause that wasn’t theirs. The tribe, whose ...
In 1862, a rumor about Native Americans attacking citizens and burning homes caused widespread panic in Sheboygan County. The panic began when a horseman arrived in Sheboygan claiming Natives were ...
Feb. 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great ...
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