by Marcos Bretón When former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made the incredible remark that the United States has never sought land after winning a war, except to […]
Tag: history
Another war, another forced relocation
by Patricia Steckler I’m confused. In second grade in the 1950s, my teacher taught us that Columbus discovered America. We learned about the Niña, the Pinta and […]
Editorial Encore: Halloween across time and cultures
Editor’s Note: This editorial was originally published Oct. 31, 2021. Happy Halloween! A fun fact for you: “Halloween” is a contraction of “Hallow Eve,” or “All Hallows’ […]
Oct. 29 letters to the editor
To Mooney, knowing history is ‘woke’ I read with interest Rep. Alex Mooney’s Oct. 22 response to a Dominion Post editorial criticizing him for voting against a […]
Blame the House, not the U.S. Constitution, for the speaker mess
by Noah Feldman On the surface, the gridlock caused by the Republican Party’s failure to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives looks like a dysfunction […]
The true crime story of the Osage Nation would take a century to tell
by Torivio Fodder Director Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land […]
McCarthy victim of long GOP revolution
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Years of broken promises, political reversals and obeisance to the GOP’s Trumpian elements finally caught up this week with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. […]
The fear of books has a long history
Book banning and burning is nearly as old as civilization itself — with evidence of manuscripts being burned dating back to the B.C.s — and is often […]
Ukraine honors independence amidst war
by Igor Khrestin and David J. Kramer The sound of Russian bombs, along with celebratory fireworks, will mark Ukraine’s 32nd Independence Day tomorrow — 18 months into […]
U.S. education and the great white lies
by David Redman Recent battles over how to teach history in American schools have focused on views of America’s domestic racism, but that’s only one piece of […]