Speaker Jon Hansen better call up the Charlie Kirk brigades to wage rightwing-snowflake war against the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USD–Sioux Falls. The obviously…
Tag: history
The Defense Department still hasn’t released the 2024 report commissioned by Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Trump’s Secretary Pete Hegseth says supports his decision…
Heather Cox Richardson: Hegseth Wounded Knee Order Perpetuates Sordid Politicking of Medals of Honor
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a profound history of the partisan politics that led to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. The esteemed historian and political commentator…
We were working our way toward a civilized consensus that we should rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to 20 United States Seventh Cavalry soldiers…
Speaking of history, Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, says we need to teach a fuller, richer…
[An eager reader asked me a few days ago, Hey! When is Donald Pay going to write another installment in his history of South Dakota’s…
Holly Meyer, who once upon a time reported for the Rapid City Journal and now edits global religion news for Associated Press, reminds us that…
142 years ago, Sioux Falls chose to house inmates rather than scholars. As the state now plans to move the penitentiary from the scenic and…
Historical impersonator John “Chuck” Chalberg wrote in September 2002 that “Public schools have done ‘more harm than good.’” Chalberg cited H.L. Mecnken’s complaints about public…