Driven by the Past

Contact between Americans and the Spanish Traveling up the spine of Mexico and across the Chihuahuan Desert, Spanish explorers and then...

Encounters in the Americas Exchanges fueled by exploration have played an important role from the beginning of human history. Trade is ...

Hawaiian Islanders before Contact On a white sandy beach shaded by palm trees, looking out at the vast Pacific Ocean, a building of volca...

Jamestown before the English             Let’s now turn to the native peoples of the Atlantic coastal region in our histories of pre-conta...

On the plateau above Chaco Canyon rests the multi-room ruins of Pueblo Alto. The human made trail up the cleft in the canyon’s cliff and a...

In the early light of dawn, the landscape at Hopewell NHP undulates with mounds hidden by mist and hardwood trees. Some of these mounds da...