Forget everything you know about the United States of America. It is not united anymore, but divided into several independent ...

US President Donald Trump has once again triggered a national conversation — this time by declaring that the term ‘Indian’ ...

Trump was referring to Native American communities while using the term “Indian,” a label that traces back to Christopher ...

Christopher Columbus gets credit for the first written record of manatees in North America, ones he saw near the Dominican ...

This group of solely aquatic mammals, known scientifically as the Sirenia, is unrelated to whales and dolphins. The ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

What really goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Is it as mysterious and dangerous as we’re meant to believe? And could ocean farts be behind it all?

The Nao Victoria, the ship that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe between 1519 and 1522 under Ferdinand ...

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as ...

In How to Catch A Criminal, we look at the many ways not-so-perfect crimes are solved. This month, a killer gives ...