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Oftentimes, history books completely overlook or sanitize uncomfortable truths from history... Warning: This post contains ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has announced that he is donating $1m to the Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts. Hundreds of families have been displaced by the fires that claimed 25 lives since breaking out in ...

Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880-1956, Ph.D. Yale University) spent the bulk of his academic career at New York University where he was on the faculty for 26 years, serving as Chairman of the Department of ...

Netflix’s new historical drama “American Primeval” is currently the No. 1 series on the site. But how much of the show and ...

The National Museum of American History (NMAH) welcomes millions of visitors from around the world every year. Its collection ...

Yes, and no. American Primeval is a work of historic fiction. Meaning, Sara and Isaac’s story is made up, as is the story of Jacob and Abish. However, the backdrop of American Primeval is based on ...

California casino-owning Native American tribes are taking cardrooms to court, alleging they’re running illegal games. On Wednesday, Jan. 1, Senate Bill 549, the Tribal Nations Access to Justice ...

But it’s also an occasion to reexamine markers or monuments with questionable historical facts or outdated language ... as ...

A four-part series by Times columnist Gustavo Arellano dives into the history of Latino political ... that Latinos — especially Mexican Americans — were engaging in a conspiracy to relegate ...

Ramaswamy argues that American culture has long celebrated mediocrity over excellence, a trend he traces back to the 1990s. He contends that this mindset doesn’t start in college but much ...