It feels like a good time, as well as the appropriate holiday weekend, to be reminded of the glories of North America, the focus of “America the Beautiful,” a six-part paean to “the wildest, most ...

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library ...