No one knows why the Hohokam Indians vanished. They had carved hundreds of miles of canals in the Sonoran Desert with stone tools and channeled the waters of the Salt and Gila Rivers to irrigate their ...

A long list of lost or submerged lands and extinct civilizations couldn't see ahead, didn't care about their descendants, or cared only about the present. Foresight or the will to do anything about it ...

This weekend, with drums and rain sticks and extra-long Indigenous flutes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is preparing to stir the great American melting pot. “Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute ...

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of tipping turmoil, burger buzz and more.

Before European explorers arrived on the American continents, a diverse array of civilizations, kingdoms, and nations flourished across North, Central, and South America. These societies developed ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...

Professor Anishanslin specializes in Early American and Atlantic World History, with a focus on eighteenth-century material culture. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware’s History of ...

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