It's commonly believed that Native American origins go way back to the Ice Age, when the first humans migrated across the ...

Washington is further re-embracing its past while largely bringing back its Super Bowl-era uniforms and introducing an ...

Akron is the only Midwest city to show Native American artist Kent Monkman's exhibition "History is Painted by the Victors." ...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

The Trump administration’s lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn’t thought too much about one of the big questions in President Donald Trump’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration’s lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning on President Donald Trump’s effort to do away with birthright citizenship. It ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the government on its argument that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause requires a child’s parents to be lawful permanent residents to obtain birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON — In a moment that could take on new significance almost 150 years later, Omaha election official Charles Wilkins on April 5, 1880, refused to register John Elk to vote on the grounds that ...

The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” By Jennifer Schuessler A study of the financial ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...