Researchers attribute early colonial land-use practices, such as deforestation, plowing and damming with influencing present-day hydrological systems across eastern North America. Previous studies ...

The number is 47, not 50. Its early years are traced in a fascinating exhibition at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Culver City. “Voice of America: The Long Reach of Shortwave” takes ...

Over the next few weeks and months, I am going to endeavour to tell the history of Southwest Missouri and Barry County. I ...

In order to have a functioning economy, the colonists were forced to turn to other commodities for use as money ... How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic by Sharon Ann Murphy.

To do so, early colonists turned to farming the land, cutting down its trees, and hunting its animals. In Latin America, by contrast, where land was not held in free and common socage, settlers ...

Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America ... responses to climate and land-use variables in the region ...