In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...

Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as “two or more races,” not Native American.

On Thanksgiving morning each year, Native Americans hold a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz island, in the San Francisco Bay. It honors Indigenous resistance over the years and the historic 1969 Native ...

A series of turquoise signs along southbound U.S. 89 near Tuba City, Arizona, proclaims the Navajo Nation’s resiliency. (File photo by Sierra Alvarez/Cronkite News) As Immigration and Customs ...

The year was 2005. You lit an eyeliner pencil aflame with a stolen lighter and smeared the black gunk onto your eyelids. Fall Out Boy’s From Under the Cork Tree blasted from your stereo, much to your ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...