The defendants were all born in American Samoa, an island cluster in the South Pacific roughly halfway between Hawaii and New ...

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate found a hoard of 18th-century bottles buried in an old cellar ...

Early successes for the Continental Army faltered ... heavyweight colony like Quebec on their side would amplify the American Colonies’ protests against British tyranny. It would also mean ...

The first American-born African likely was either ... which can yield clues about the dispersions of African populations in the early colonies. These pipes may also hold the DNA of the people ...

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Fought from 1775 to 1783, the American Revolutionary War was the United States' founding conflict, in which the American colonies fought ... The U.S. military suffered early setbacks, including ...

There is no record of people setting foot here until the early 1500s, though some believe ... considered the most significant find from colonial America. Some surprises were cahow bones, tropical ...

In the early days of colonial America, settlers faced a landscape brimming with both opportunity and peril. The promise of fertile land and abundant resources drew many to this new world, ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared ...