The plant and animal life on this continent are described over a 4-billion-year time span.

What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as

The northern and southern borders and borderlands of the United States should have much in common; instead they offer mirror articulations of the complex relati

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Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursi