Columbus Day became a federal holiday to commemorate the landing of Christopher Columbus in the “New World” and his achievements in 1937, but throughout history those achievements ...
Jacob Devaney, in an October 3 blog for the Huffington Post, thought it was a good time—with Columbus Day coming up and election season upon us—to remind everyone about the roots o...
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....
The Native American studies program at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire has come a long way from having just one half-time professor and offering two classes when it was...
With three eagles and a red-tailed hawk circling overhead, an honoring ceremony was held August 23 for the ancestors of the Chickasaw and Absentee Shawnee nations who had been rebu...
When Cutcha Risling Baldy started menstruating as an adolescent, she preferred to keep her body’s development private, but her mother surprised her by acting happy and celebratory...