History
Detectorists Find More Than What’s Underground
Relic hunters build comradery by uncovering history in rural Pennsylvania
Federal Courts Sentence Native Americans to Longer Prison Terms
How federal authority over tribes fails to provide equal justice under the law
How the ’70s Counterculture Shaped My Ozark Childhood
Going back-to-the-land meant confronting my family's, and our nation's, fraught racial history
Jim Hightower Confronts the 1980s Farm Crisis
"It's the same old story—Reagan helps the rich, and Lord help the rest of us."
Pioneer Letitia Carson Escaped Slavery to Became One of Oregon’s First Farmers
Racial justice advocates work to memorialize the historic homestead of Letitia and her white husband David Carson
The Forgotten Victims Downwind of Oppenheimer’s Bomb
How popular narratives obscure the victims of America's first dirty bomb.
The Great Spirit (Why I am a Pagan)
Zitkála-Šá, born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in 1876, embraces the religion of her ancestors
Will a Century-Old Doctrine Help Preserve Tribal Water Rights in the West?
“While Indian tribes have to determine their water rights for the rest of their future, our cities, towns and counties don’t.”
Finding Common Ground at a Montana Barn Raising
The former Montana House speaker and Missoula mayor reflects on working together across differences
This Small Nebraska Town Hosted Negro League Clubs and Possibly an Official Major League Baseball Game
Oxford, Neb., (pop. 1,141), hosted Negro league baseball games in the 1940s
Woman’s Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant
The popular writer skewers a leading minister
