The Pocahontas Effect: Native Americans in Early Modern Europe
Native Americans often made the journey across the ocean to Europe, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes as slaves.
Make Like a Tree and Leif: When Viking Explorer Leif Erikson Reached North America in the First Millennium AD
Leif Erikson and his intrepid band of Vikings made it across the Atlantic 500 years before Christopher Columbus. Skol!
America’s First Real Indian: How a Bengalese Man Ended Up in 17th-Century New France
Somehow a Bengalese man from South Central Asia ended up working with French Jesuits in colonial North America. Check out how it could have happened.
When the Vikings Came Back: New Sweden and its Short Life on the Delaware
In March 1638, a contingency of Swedish colonists sailed into the mouth of the Delaware River, looking to establish a permanent settlement in the name of the tre kronor and Queen Christina.
America’s Favorite Genocidal Maniac: Christopher Columbus and his Reactions to the Taìno and Lucayan Peoples
Okay, so, to be fair to Columbus, he didn’t want to kill every native inhabitant of the Bahamas and Caribbean that came into contact with. He just wanted to enslave them all and establish himself as their feudal overlord.
Shake the Earth: Haitian Soldiers in the American Revolution
You’ve probably heard how France fought on the colonists’ side in the American Revolution. But did you know there were Haitian soldiers in the American Revolution who fought alongside the rebelling colonists?