With its gold rush history, vast wilderness, and rugged charm, Canada’s Yukon territory is arguably one of the most fabled ...

Bacon's Castle in rural Virginia, built in 1665, is North America's oldest brick dwelling. Preservation Virginia works to ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Volume I. Early indigenous North America: an overview -- Mexico And Mesoamerica: beginnings to European contact -- Native America meets Europe: the Colonial Era -- The transfer of ideas: Native ...

Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish. Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts.

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles Samuel I. Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps ...

On October 28, 1954, the North American FJ-4 Fury made its first flight, marking a major leap in carrier-based jet design.

Something very strange appears to be happening deep, deep underneath the U.S. Midwest and the Ohio Valley. North America’s geological core has persisted for more than a billion years; it’s what ...

Four global corporations make and sell 99.9% of all Class 8 over-the-road vehicles in the U.S. But dozens of manufacturers have been part of trucking’s rich North American history. Here is a look at ...