Tag: US history
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents –...
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that...
Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a...
Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota
During a weeklong trip to Canada, Pope Francis visited a former residential school...
Utah’s Pioneer Day celebrates Mormons’ trek west – but there’s a...
Jeffrey Turner, University of Utah
Each July 24, the state of Utah celebrates “Pioneer Day.” There are parades, rodeos,...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
