It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in the Americas. He arrived in modern-day Newfoundland around the year 1000, ...

For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...