June is National Immigration Heritage Month, a time to remember the millions who have come to America from a land far, far ...

Leprosy affects thousands worldwide, typically caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Until now, most believed the disease arrived in the Americas with European colonizers.

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

Trump’s claims of a white genocide happening in South Africa have been debunked by fact-checkers. But this is still the ...

the “Great Wave” still caused lasting changes to American culture. We often think of the descendants of European immigrants as a relatively homogeneous group in the sense that the particular ...

the refugees from the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-1800s, the immigrants of Ellis Island that came during the late 19th and early 20th century from all sorts of European nations, seek a new life ...

This continued until the first restrictions on white European immigration in the early 20th century. Throughout the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, this was the case. When studying Latin American history, it ...