I always look just a little askance on the desire to push back documented Native American habitation of the Americas farther than the evidence takes it, because while I support.
This is the grave of Major Ridge. Born in 1771, somewhere around Hiwassee, Tennessee, Ridge grew up in the Cherokee elite in a period of great change. His father was.
A Ho-Chunk woman stretching a deerhide as part of the tanning process, 1880
Comanches, west Texas, circa 1830
For our latest podcast, we interview Erika Bsumek, Professor of History at the University of Texas, about her brand new book The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession.
When I teach my environmental history courses, I tell my students that if they want to work for the rest of their lives, go get a degree in water law.
In 1862, President Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history, ending the Dakota War. This grotesque event gets even worse. At the end of the executions, the bodies.
Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, from 1645 etching from Antwerp.
