In American history, rule by force and fiat often backfires. The president may have forgotten this. The rest of us can’t afford to.

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

Holidays span cultures and time, and sometimes even lie in religious or secular commemorations. As they allow families to gather and celebrate shared values, Virginia’s rich history shows ...

A project to reintroduce the metre-tall birds as a breeding species to England has created wild colonies producing dozens of ...

Tom Paine is one of the forgotten names of the American Revolution, but it can be argued that no other man was as important ...

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

A rewilding estate has been instrumental in reintroducing a bird which became extinct in Britain over 600 years ago.

Tottering on the very fringes of the map, for the hardy Shetlanders used to life on the edge, the brutal double barrage of famine and poverty ...

Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing ...