Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

*Indians of Early America* (1957) is an **educational documentary** produced by **Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation (EBEC)** that re-creates the **daily life, traditions, and cultural ...

The Quakers have long attracted scholarly interest for the apparently progressive positions they have taken on issues such as the empowerment of women, the maintenance of just relations between ...

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations. Evidence of a long-term settlement, rather than a temporary hunting camp, ...

The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures. The North American fur trade was a key economic and cultural system linking Indigenous and European peoples, ...

Section I. Witchcraft in early North America : an introduction -- Beliefs : Europeans -- Beliefs : west and west-central Africans -- Beliefs : Native Americans -- Colonization, witchcraft, and ...

Volume I. Early indigenous North America: an overview -- Mexico And Mesoamerica: beginnings to European contact -- Native America meets Europe: the Colonial Era -- The transfer of ideas: Native ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Haitian Declaration of Independence on January 1, 1804, explicitly challenged long-standing systems of European colonialism and slavery in ...

A man considered one of the best football players of the early 20th century was an Ojibwe Native American from North Dakota. In 1930, the great Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne listed William Jennings ...

The story of how early humans migrated to North America might not be as simple as we once thought. The prevailing theory was that ancient peoples traveled from Siberia to modern-day Alaska using the ...

A linguistics analysis shows that language arrived in North America in multiple waves from Siberia. The Americas have half of the world’s linguistic diversity, despite a much shorter human history.