Residential schools still thrive in the U.S. What they're doing will shock Canada
It is Seniors Night in Big Sky Country. Onto the volleyball court trot the Lady Braves of the St. Labre Indian School, a ...
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Dahn Memory Lane: Who Started the Great Fire of 1845?
The blaze that would become the Great Fire of 1845 began about where Boulevard of the Allies intersects Stanwix today.
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An Irish General's incendiary proposal: Let Blacks fight for the Confederacy
IrishCentral Contributor Joseph Gannon considers Cork-born General Pat Cleburne's proposal during the US Civil War.
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Work to begin next week on new Little Bighorn Battlefield visitor center
The nearly $14 million project is funded by the Centennial Challenge program and donations through the National Park ...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’
The president's humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union's ideals—and ...
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World ...
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These Historic Sites in the U.S. Were Once Endangered. Now They’re Thriving
Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been naming America’s most endangered historic places, ...
Book Review: A young Walt Longmire battles animal and human predators on Alaska’s North Slope
In 1970, after fighting in Vietnam, young Walt Longmire took a job working security for an oil company in Alaska ...
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Naples firm invests $14M in newspapers, buys 5% stake in Dallas Morning News
The beleaguered newspaper industry has been written off by many — including Warren Buffett. Naples billionaire David Hoffmann ...
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Rescind the Wounded Knee Medals
After the battle, Grant sent 5 more Armies ... we know that the 7th Cavalry was pursuing revenge on our innocent Lakota for Custer’s 1876 defeat at the Little Big Horn. Major Samuel Whitside’s son ...
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UM researchers study bighorn sheep, mountain goats
A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and ...
Westernaires reenact history with Native American costumes and whoops. Critics say the depictions have no place in a modern West.
A skirmish erupted on the floor of the National Western Complex’s arena. Thunderous pops of gunfire, shouting and fancy equine footwork unfolded inside the Denver events center one Saturday morning ...