This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

Sent by Louis XIV, the filles du roi were sent to North America to birth new generations of colonists and help conquer the land.

What is this “settler colonialism” that’s become all the rage? Let’s take a closer look.

This annotated bibliography samples scholarship on the rich—and difficult—history of natural history.

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

The plantation hoe, a simple, ubiquitous, and historically ignored farming tool, was specific to the Atlantic colonial project, shows historian Chris Evans.

The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Revolutionary War and the hostilities between Great Britain and the newly independent United States—at least temporarily.

The white pines of New England may have done more than any leaf of tea to kick off the American Revolution.

The Eleutherian Adventurers departed Bermuda for the Bahamas in 1647, hoping to create the first democracy in the Americas.

Alexander Hamilton’s anonymous essay challenged the voting citizens of New York to hold fast to the truth when deciding to ratify (or not) the US Constitution.