A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though identity is fundamentally cultural, we tend to anchor it in biology—in the idea ...

Thanks to the Walt Disney Company, Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who lived in the 17th century. The ...