On this Veterans Day, communities across Indian Country are honoring the thousands of Native American and Alaska Native men ...

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools ...

Unlike his first administration, when he issued a presidential proclamation for Native American Heritage Month, President ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

This National Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate Native Americans’ enduring contributions to our Nation’s greatness. From the earliest days of ...

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

The American dream, as defined by historian James Truslow Adams in his 1931 bestseller “The Epic of America,” is the “dream of a better, richer and happier life for all ...

A Native American woman born in Phoenix was wrongly flagged for deportation at an Iowa jail after an ICE detainer mix-up, ...

More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

Wisconsin has 11 federally recognized tribes. Nearly half of the residents in Menominee County, home to a large number of Indigenous people, receive SNAP benefits.