Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

America the beautiful.” Not everyone knows that those words and that famous song were inspired by the mountain right in our ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

July 4 is a day many Americans celebrate to honor the country’s independence from Great Britain. For many Native Americans, ...

Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s ...

For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a reminder of how those of European ancestry nearly killed a culture—and still ...

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates the original people of North America. It’s often held up as a counter holiday to Columbus Day, seen by some as a celebration of the continent’s colonization.

Though the city of Seattle declared Indigenous Peoples Day in 2014, it wasn’t until 2020 that Seattle activists truly leaned into the demonization of America and, by extension, white people.

However, The Indigenous Peoples' Day Act, reintroduced in Congress on October 2, 2023, would potentially designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day nationwide.

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates the cultures and honors the struggles of America's indigenous peoples. President Joe Biden proclaimed the day, which is observed on the same day as Columbus Day ...

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day is an opportunity to promote a more inclusive and accurate narrative of American history. It encourages reflection on the diverse cultures and histories that ...