Publishers are plain scared. No that’s unfair. They are terrified. In our bizarre age of disrupters and those who prefer to ‘repurpose’ inconvenient truths like history, some readers might think that ...

The negatives of American history were part of history lessons 70 years ago. What has changed is the effort to distort that truth by the media. The great-great grandparents of today's students arrived ...

Sanity seems conspicuously absent from his actions. What mind, driven by a profound disregard for history and human dignity, barges into the world’s sanctuaries—smashes centuries-old monuments, ...

Meet the Teacher night in social studies class came to a sudden halt when the subject of the year’s first lesson came up. Eighth graders, we were told, were starting the fall with a lesson on 9/11. It ...

Truth means describing reality. It is a statement that tells what things actually are. While technically, the understanding is that truth describes reality, many people do not know this. Many ...

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths,” philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stated in his 1878 book “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.” Though many take Nietzsche’s ...

Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson and Upper Mattaponi Chief Frank Adams talk about preserving Virginia's Indigenous history and correcting long-held myths on their podcast.

We are nearing the end of Black History Month and a national fight is raging over public education, with its epicenter in Florida. In a recent piece in CounterPunch Anthony DiMaggio lambasted Florida ...

Sojourner Truth, the African American abolitionist, women's rights advocate and social activist revered to this day for her presentation on racial inequalities, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor many questions remain, notably, what did Washington know about the impending attack, and what did it do about it? A vast amount ...