History

We love our national parks, but it's time to recognize that conservation dogmas were originally rooted in colonial conquest and genocide.

On July 4, 2015, the Confederate flag flew in Gettysburg once more - 152 years after the Civil War battle that made the town famous.

Donald Trump embodies many of the damaging characteristics and principles that have defined the United States for centuries.

The fact that Jimmy Carter's administration is today dismissed as some sort of afterthought is amazingly foolish, and a disservice to the people.

The College Board has either glossed over or completely ignored many important issues.

A Texas man's more than decade-long battle to relocate a Confederate monument has reignited amid a national debate scrutinizing symbols of the Confederacy.

Seventy years later, and we seem farther than ever from a rejection of the idea that launching atomic warfare on Japanese civilian populations was an act of mercy.

The landmark US disability rights legislation became the basis for an international treaty embraced by much of the world - but not, ironically, by the US itself.

Those who romanticize the Confederacy can learn valuable lessons from the legacy of rebel deserters.

War is grotesque, it changes US society and its burdens often fall on the most marginalized people.