For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.

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Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and the Vietnam War, is back this week on PBS with a new six-part documen...

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The 19th Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Distinguished Lecture in American History

The co-directors of the new PBS series describe how they made a documentary about a war distant in time and shrouded in myth.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The State Archives of North Carolina will host a free public discussion among four distinguished UNC-Chapel Hill historians on teaching the Foundations of American Democracy from 5:30-7...

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Kathleen DuVal is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specializes in early American and Native American history.

Native Americans have a history that goes back millennia — rooted in generations of strength and resilience that continue to influence our world today.

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When forces unite with no care for the Constitution, the rule of law or anything you learned in civics class, you can end up with the entrenched overreach of the Plenary Power Doctrine.

The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”

The North American continent is approximately 160 million years old, yet in the United States, we tend to focus on what amounts to 3300 millionths of that history, which is the period between 1492 to ...

The leading international prize for history writing has named its 2024 finalists.

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

What were the Arkansas, the Iroquois and others doing before, during and after this country was colonized? Kathleen DuVal's

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.

A bi-weekly companion piece to the podcast Worlds Turned Upside Down. Join R2 Studios' Dr. Jim Ambuske and Primary Source Media's Dr. Lynn Price Robbins as they tak…

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights fo...

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A historical survey of Native America’s political autonomy.

Kathleen DuVal shares the 5 best books on the American Revolution beyond the Founding Fathers. Have you read The Boston Massacre?

*WORK IN PROGRESS* This map geolocates runaway slave newspaper advertisements from the 18th and 19th centuries that mention the neighborhood of Georgetown in what is today Washington, D.C; Washington...

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) staff from multiple program divisions and offices are pleased to be attending this year’s American Historical Association Annual Meeting from January 4 to...

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