When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America ...

The story of the United States Air Force stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War-well before the USAF became a separate service-and ...

First published in 1569, La Araucana , an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the ...

A year after John Bradstreet's raid of 1758-the first and largest British-American riverine raid mounted during the Seven Years' War (known in North America ...

Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany ...

In Handmaid to Divinity , Desiree Hellegers establishes seventeenth-century poetry as a critical resource for understanding the debates about natural ...

The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28-March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war ...

Before their forced removal to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the Euchee people lived in Georgia and other southeastern territories. Today the Euchees are enrolled ...

Texas is a solid red state. Or trending purple. Or soon to be blue. One thing is certain: as Texas looms ever larger in national politics, the makeup ...

On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called ...