‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
The Myth of Opportunity Has Broken America
America's myth of opportunity has created the unprecedented civic crisis that brought Donald Trump back to power, writes Adam ...
Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new 'Golden Age'?
He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and ...
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What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats
A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...
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The Discovery of Gold on This Date in 1848 at Sutter’s Creek Kicked Off the California Gold Rush and Transformed America
Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...
70 Extremely Rare And Fascinating Pictures From American History That Will Completely And Totally Change Your Perspective On The Past
"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...
Faith leaders urge honest recounting of American history and attention to MLK’s words on national holiday
Cleveland religious leaders met on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss how America can move forward from its racial ...
‘American Primeval’: How this Native American historian reconciles hard history with the storytelling of Hollywood
Historical fiction should not be a tool to justify modern biases or to create villains or heroes; it should challenge us to ...