The first white Americans to settle in the Islands arrived in the 1820s intent on Christianizing aboriginal Hawaiians; they soon decided it was the Lord's will that they husband the Hawaiian lands ...

Some members of the Leiden church returned to England, and on Aug. 5, 1620, they sailed for America on the ship the ... The Pueblos first encountered Franciscan friars in the 15th century, but ...

Mexico, is led by Jerónimo Avilés, an underwater speleologist and director of the Instituto de la Prehistoria de América AC. It’s the first place where items from underwater archaeological discoveries ...

The first English settlers in North America ate indigenous dogs to survive during an intense period of starvation, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Iowa uncovered ...

February is Black History Month, and the Allen County Genealogical Society held a presentation on the early African Americans ...

The marker is located at Cheyenne Settlers Heritage Park and tells the story of the Cheyenne Valley, Wisconsin’s largest rural African American settlement in the 19th century. It’s a story of ...

By 1849, Ohio produced more corn than any other state and it ranks second in wheat production. Farmers in southern Ohio also had the climate to raise tobacco, a highly sought-after crop believed to ...