Many of the early German settlers formed strong ethnic communities in Mississippi River towns like Dubuque and Davenport. They also quickly fanned out across the state to every Iowa county during ...

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.

Many of the early German settlers formed strong ethnic communities in Mississippi River towns like Dubuque and Davenport. They also quickly fanned out across the state to every Iowa county during ...

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 ...

America’s treeless, isolated expanse put early European settlers to the test. Drought, loneliness, and debt drove many to failure, forcing the homesteaders to retreat East.

Early European settlers, often living far apart from neighbors, enjoyed abundant feasts when they gathered. In addition to English, French and Spanish settlers, ...

The name of the town, spelled by early European settlers as "Parames," supposedly comes from “Parampseapus” or “Peremessing,” thought to be Lenape words for “where there is worthwhile ...

If early European settlers had not followed their perceived calling of civilizing and modernizing Native Americans in the areas of the environment and LGBTQ+ identities, today’s America would be ...

A new study challenges the belief that Europeans introduced leprosy to ... as Mycobacterium leprae caused leprosy and that it was only spread in America by early European explorers and settlers.

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

PEPPERELL — Like many communities in the area, Pepperell is packed full of American Revolutionary history dating back to the early European settlers. One such historical artifact lies across ...