Controversial Zinn Education Project curriculum adopted by 176,000+ teachers nationwide teaches American history through lens of racial oppression in public schools.

James Kences latest column talks about when the English of the north first met the Indigenous Native American population in ...

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In the 1890s, Broadway music was a staid affair, alternating between antimacassar operetta, sentimental ballads, jigs and ...

Amarillo Little Theatre’s 'Ragtime' unites powerful performances, a 25-piece orchestra and timely messages about justice, hope and unity.

The Smithsonian's latest collaboration with USA Today celebrates and shares community stories from across the country ...

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.

Halloween Week on Strictly can usually be relied upon to shake things up – maybe it’s the British love of fancy dress, maybe it’s the prospect of Craig and Anton in drag – but this week will go down ...

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s beauty and the spiritual inspiration that could be enjoyed at a humble ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...