Cahokia

Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to balancing power.

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.

People hunted and raised small farms near the ruins of the ancient city.

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.

Cahokia was bigger than Paris — then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.

A new book provides a framework that engages with “big history” or “deep history” while avoiding explanations that flirt with forms of determinism.

Centuries before Columbus, Vikings came to the Western hemisphere. How far into the Americas did they travel?

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

Our food system could have been so different.

The history of French settlement in "le pays des Illinois" is not well-known by Americans, and what is known is being revisited by historians.

In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.

2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened?

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.