Jeff Groff will discuss his Yellowstone-focused book during a free public lecture at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown.

For some, history is just that: Something to be learned in a classroom — a collection of names and stories in thick textbooks. But there are many reasons history is important well beyond a midterm exam in high school. Dr. Robert Denning Everyone can ...

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For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was intended to be amended. But you have to go back more than 50 ...

Former UMass Lowell Professor Robert Forrant wrote this column in conjunction with Deirdre Hutchison, an academic advisor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Honors College. She has a 2023 degree in history from

A person shared his story after watching the same disturbing pattern play out at his former school year after year.

Poet and writer Clint Smith says we are taught to think of slavery as something that happened a long, long time ago. But then he learned that his grandfather's grandfather had been enslaved. “This person who was so central to my life and my own identity is someone who was only a generation or two removed from a family member who had been born into slavery,