Tag: US history
How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from...
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Oklahoma State University
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing...
Plantations could be used to teach about US slavery if stories...
Amy Potter, Georgia Southern University and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
State legislatures across the United States are...
Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered...
Wendelin Hume, University of North Dakota
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Why it’s replacing Columbus Day in many places
Susan C. Faircloth, Colorado State University
Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy...
What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
Jeremy Stoddard, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with...
A century after the Appalachian Trail was proposed, millions hike it...
Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
The Appalachian Trail, North America’s most famous hiking route, stretches over 2,189 mountainous miles...
A century after the Appalachian Trail was proposed, millions hike it...
Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
The Appalachian Trail, North America’s most famous hiking route, stretches over 2,189 mountainous miles...
Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn’t protect minors – it hurts...
Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University
A 1918 newspaper article captures public attitudes toward a typhoid vaccine clinic...