Is Quebec City, Canada, the most European city in North America? Go to its historic center, Old Quebec, and you’ll likely say “oui.” ...

North and South America. This map, drawn in 1540 by by Sebastian Münster, was the very first printed map that called the great body of water to the west of the land by the name Pacific.

Explore the pivotal battlegrounds that shaped history during the French and Indian War! Discover the stories behind key sites and the impact they had on North America. 🏞️🇨🇦 # ...

While Whistler and Banff on the west coast get all the Canadian ski attention, this "French Alps" town in the east is North America's best ski resort.

The webcomic xkcd — that repository of deadpanning stick figures responsible for such memorable lines as “someone is wrong on the Internet” — today came out with a graphic that’s sure to make public ...

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In an announcement likely to rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers have proposed a location for the oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America. They ...

This, too, is a mystery. One theory implicates two colonists, Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam, who explored the area in 1671. When they came across the river and didn’t recognize it, the story goes, ...

“The Significance of the French Experience in North America” is the theme of a symposium being held Friday-Saturday, Sept. 11-12 at Yale. This is the eighth annual symposium sponsored by Howard R.

Imagine a world very different from our own, where North America developed not into the stable geopolitical regions we know today, but Balkanized into smaller empires, territories and republics.