The participation of white mothers in the "bitter robbery" of Indigenous children from their families was a cruel irony in the colonialist programs of the US and Australia.

Buffalo Soldiers were assigned to assess bicycles as military transportation on the frontier at the end of the nineteenth century.

This non-exhaustive list of readings on the role of guns in US history and society introduces the field as a subject of scholarly inquiry.

The popular conspiracy theory has intriguing parallels with classic noir by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

Colonial education administrators recruited teachers from the mainland, but soon realized another strategy was in order.

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

In 1907, the U.S. Reindeer Service was organized as part of an effort to domesticate the animals...and Inupiat Eskimos.

Architect Mary Colter created buildings that incorporated local materials and indigenous motifs, blending with the environment rather than dominating it.

A new film tells the story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer who infiltrated the KKK in 1972. What was the context for this odd moment in history?

Each of them has a distinctive structure and a complex history.