The second is exposure to other languages, and the colonists came into contact with Native American languages, mariners’ Indian English pidgin and other settlers, who spoke Dutch, Swedish ...

“Daddy” Rice, who said he was inspired by an elderly black man singing a song titled “Jump Jim Crow,” says Bill Pretzer, senior history curator at the National Museum of African American ...

Audubon’s native plants database draws its plant data from the North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program (BONAP).