Syphilis was perhaps the only disease to ride the Columbian Exchange eastward.) But the blood of the new arrivals, and the mosquitoes that crossed with their ships, changed everything.

Native Americans discovered the Lost Escalante Gold Mine in the Santa Catalina Mountains in 1698. The mine, which was worked intermittently, became known as the Mine With the Iron Door.

This idyll was interrupted by, of all things, success. Van Gogh had died in 1890, but in Copenhagen, the first joint exhibition of his work and Gauguin’s, in 1893, had stirred great excitement.

Cahokia Mounds, in Collinsville, is home to what was the largest pre-Columbian site north of Mexico. The site was abandoned before Europeans arrived on the continent, but at the height of its ...

Tepache is a 3,000-year-old beverage from Mexico, typically fermented from pineapple peels, piloncillo (raw, unrefined sugar), and spices. This vibrant, lightly effervescent drink couldn’t be ...

GOULDSBORO — The Gouldsboro Historical Society will present “The Oyster Farm on Mill Pond,” featuring Joe Young of Schoodic Sea Farm, at the society’s headquarters, 88 Old Route One, on ...

Before 1492, there were about 10 million pre-Columbian Native Americans in what is now the U.S. By the 1890s, there was a range of only 228,000 to 237,000 who remained. Before Colombus arrived in ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 "kill switch", which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F-35s ...

Known as the Anglo-American War of 1812, this conflict overlapped with the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and began as an American attempt to invade what is now Canada, then part of the British Empire, in ...

With cassava inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, rural Caribbean communities see a 'bright future' This manioc pancake of pre-Columbian origin is a staple food in the Caribbean and Amazonia.

The tusk may have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, an Ice Age species that disappeared over 11,000 years ago. By Margherita Bassi Published March 18, 2025 Science Human History ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. Does your town's name have Native American roots? The answer might surprise you ...