If early European settlers had not followed their perceived calling of civilizing and modernizing Native Americans in the ...

In a cabin in the Kaw Valley, a few miles northwest of what is now Lawrence, the first baby boy of white parents was born in ...

The tradition started in 1955 "by accident," he added, when a colonel working in an operation centre received a call from a child looking to speak to Santa.

We recommend starting your art tour of the nation’s capital at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait ...

Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

For generations, rural residents in Northwest Louisiana have claimed that during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 ...

Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

Stacker compiled a collection of new and classic Latin American songs for the holidays and the local traditions that inspired ...

This essay on native American presence is the first in a series of ten on Native American history in the region.

On an otherwise mundane Army Airfield in rural Indiana, a group of high-tech German warplanes brought stateside as war ...

By Gerhard Apfelthaler In recent years, millennials and GenZ-ers have often been referred to as “digital natives” — a whole generation of people who excel in their command of computers, iPhones, ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...