It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in ...

Viking ancestry is far more common in Britain than most of us ever realised. A simple DNA kit could reveal your family’s own ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Later, but at an unknown date, came the movement of the Dene-speaking peoples now living mostly in Alaska and Canada’s North ...

Oracle's co-founder Larry Ellison is one of the world's richest people. Now his family is connected to Lion Country Safari in Palm Beach County.

Many settled in New York, while others headed to the Midwest to become farmers. Eventually, the wave of Norwegian immigrants ...

Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by ...

While medical aid in dying is legal in many areas of the U.S., there are strict eligibility requirements. Here's what we know ...

Mitchell Kernels gymnastics starts its season on Tuesday with a triangular in Yankton at 5:30 pm. Mitchell takes on ...