In New England, we are midway through the spring woodland wildflower season. The brilliant painted, red and nodding trilliums are blooming and will soon be followed by that showstopper — the lady’s ...

After landing at Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, a group of English colonists struggled to survive the harsh elements. And as the story goes, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped them, and, in the fall of ...

New artifacts on exhibit at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville didn't come from a shopping mall -- of course. But they do illustrate how 17th- and 18th-century trade between Native ...

Lithograph of the Paxton Boys' 1763 massacre of the Native population in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Published in 1841. Credit: (WikiMedia Commons) In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group ...

Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives called ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were helped by friendly Native Americans to navigate their new home. Together, ...