Deni Seymour has spent decades researching first contact between Native Americans and European settlers. Then she found a 500-year-old cannon.

The men cast "strangely embarrassed glances at the sprawling bodies, at the battered huts and at us few still alive", he would later write in his Holocaust memoir The Truce. "They did not greet us ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the ...