Germans dominated the first big wave of European settlers to Iowa, forced from their homeland by revolution. German heritage remains prevalent today.

The first European settlers in this area, known as the “Old Proprietors,” had obtained land grants and titles to the land here – land that had previously been home to Indigenous peoples.

The skeleton found in Maryland belongs to an adolescent 17th-century boy, who experts said may have arrived on one of two ships in March 1634.

Germans dominated the first big wave of European settlers to Iowa, forced from their homeland by revolution. German heritage remains prevalent today.

A series of discoveries is revealing that Europe's first inhabitants settled in a remote and rugged corner of Granada some 1.4 million years ago.

How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

Food is part of the South's tradition of community. Early European settlers, often living far apart from neighbors, enjoyed abundant feasts when they gathered.

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

But early European settlers saw wolves as their enemies – predators that competed with human hunters for game, and that threatened farmers' livestock and livelihoods.

Titled "The Wild Turkey," it stands as a tribute to the history of Paramus, a modern commercial hub with a name that honors its Indigenous roots and early European settlers.