Since the September day when President Donald Trump symbolically renamed the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the U.S. military has conducted at least 21 strikes on Venezuelan boats, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday, October 13 is Indigenous People’s Day. Between 1776 and 1887, the U.S. seized more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans by treaty and executive order. According to the National Park ...

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 ...

A Civil War brigadier general served as the commanding officer (C.O.) of two different military forts in present-day North Dakota. From 1870 to 1872, Lewis Cass Hunt was C.O. of Fort Abercrombie and ...

Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was the last remaining member of the 739th Tank Battalion, died on Thanksgiving at 101 years old. As the number of remaining World ...

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 ...