Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View from Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, IL, USA In the American Midwest, a mysterious location exhibits the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...

What if the smallpox that was imported to the Americas by Europeans during the “Age of Discovery” had been a milder variant of that virus — one that merely sickened the Indigenous population, rather ...

When discussions turn to ancient wonders and vast historical cities, names like the pyramids of Egypt, the Roman Forum, or the Mayan temples often come to mind. But what if we told you that one of the ...