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 ...
Time

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 ...
Al Jazeera English

A history of US government shutdowns: Every closure and how long it lasted

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...
Los Angeles Times

Latino history shouldn’t be a blame game or a celebration. It’s about reckoning with reality

To be born into a country is to inherit a narrative, a story that tells us who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. This is often delivered to us by a history textbook in school. Given the ...