Most of us began to learn what we know about the past in grade school, not through history courses, but through a hybrid discipline called social studies....

Let me make it clear: I don’t write to denounce present-day Catholicism or the Christian faith....

Over the years, when discussing Indigenous history and many of the injustices perpetrated upon the Native peoples who populate what is now Hawai’i, Alaska and the continental U.S., I’ve often heard people say, “That’s history and things are better now” or “What’s [in the] past has passed; its tim...