Historians rethink North America before colonization, American racial divisions over two centuries and a Persian Empire under steady duress. By Thomas E. Ricks Some wars grind on for centuries, making ...

Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the ...

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen (2022, Liveright), 592 pages. In Indigenous Continent, Finnish historian Pekka Hämäläinen reinterprets the colonization of ...

Stephen Aron’s slim volume Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West and Pekka Hämäläinen’s heftier account Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America are at once ...

When poet and Pulitzer-winning novelist Louise Erdrich, an enrolled Turtle Mountain Chippewa, founded Birchbark Books & Native Arts in Minneapolis in 2001, there were few Indigenous-owned bookstores ...

Indigenous and Native American Heritage Month reminds us of the importance of reading Native American children’s books to ...

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