The secret history of how Jefferson’s words were doctored inside his memorial

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...
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Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History

Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America ...

Ben Shattuck’s hip and ironic ‘The History of Sound’ a perfect pick for Mark Twain award

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

School districts adopting radical’s history curriculum through lens of racial, sexual oppression

Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression.