A groundbreaking study led by Texas's Southern Methodist University (SMU) has confirmed what the people of Picuris Pueblo have long known: they are direct descendants of the ancient Chacoan ...

Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring ...

After his father died, Mark Charles Roudané, a retired Minnesota schoolteacher, began going through his dad’s papers. There were scores of binders, the records of a life as a prosperous, white, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...