American Indians Archives - The American Scholar

Masters of Empire

By Stephanie Bastek | 12/22/2015 |

Read an excerpt from Michael A. McDonnell’s new book about Great Lakes Indians

Lucid Madness

By William Howarth | 12/01/2008

A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story

Where Does American History Begin?

By Ted Widmer | 09/01/2008

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down