The human history of the Americas is thought to begin with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age. Pre-colonization · 20th century · North America

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC.

Spain was the first European nation to colonize North America, with an expedition led by Juan Ponce de León landing in Florida in 1513. Ponce de León, a veteran ...

Ancient America was the home of many large, advanced civilizations including the Maya, Inca, Olmec and Aztec societies.

8 февр. 2022 г. · After arriving some nineteen thousand years ago, the first inhabitants set up advanced civilizations with complex theologies and mature agricultural methods.

Great civilizations had risen and fallen in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. In North America, the complex Pueblo societies including the ...

The history of the Americas forever changed when the explorer Christopher Columbus arrived from Spain in 1492. This voyage and three later ones revealed vast ...

Explore important topics and moments in US history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress Colonial Settlement, 1600s · The American Revolution · The Post War United States

These Archaic cultures began the domestication of animals and plants beginning about 8,500 years ago, which ultimately led to diverse agricultural strategies ...

The founders of the United States were deeply influenced by republicanism, by Locke, and by the optimism of the European Enlightenment. George Washington, John ...