A list from Katie Couric Media, “ 10 American History Books Every Citizen Should Read ” (26 June 2023) caught my attention when it was share...

Spokane City Council votes in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day : SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane City Council voted 6-1 Monday in favor of ...

The Columbian Exchange (1972) by Alfred W. Crosby is among a small number of texts with which every American historian has some familiari...

Here's a video from YouTube: When "their" appears as "they're," the author's close reading of texts seems le...

A literary artifact in honor of Columbus Day. In this passage from a Brazilian novel of a century ago, the protagonist reflects on the memor...

I have remarked previously that Voices of a People’s History of the United States  (2004) by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove offers a genero...

Chiasmus to Columbus Lewis and Clark did not bring the West into U.S. history, they brought the United States into western history . ...

Expanding the Footnote Was the myth of a flat earth promulgated by liberals seeking to ridicule religion? Rob and Cyndy Shearer inti...

Footnote For an example of the portrayal of Columbus in textbooks a century ago, I look to D.H. Montgomery, The Leading Facts of American Hi...

Many of us were taught in elementary school that Columbus sailed west to reach the East because he understood the earth to be a sphere in co...