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Ned Blackhawk, who won the 2023 National Book Award for his groundbreaking reappraisal of U.S. history, discusses some of the ...

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Dec. 10, Tooele School District board members unanimously voted to include the Ten Commandments in the district's history curriculum.

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Police Say Suspect in C.E.O.’s Killing Most Likely Saw Himself as Hero Distributing photos of the suspect helped the police capture him. The suspect has a background in the games industry. The ...

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

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The Underground Railroad to Mexico was a loosely organized path allowing enslaved Black people in some states escape bondage.

Slavery has been among the most ubiquitous of all human institutions, across time and place, from earliest history until, some would argue, the present day. This new four-volume History is the first ...