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…
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[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…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Congress of the United States of America last night. As his country enters its eleventh month of war against Russian…
Why does Governor Kristi Noem want Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) to lead the South Dakota Republican Party? It’s not for Wiik’s profound rhetorical…
South Dakota’s Nuclear Waste War–Piercing Janklow’s Iron Curtains of Secrecy By Donald Pay The first article in this serialized history of the nuclear waste issue…
The South Dakota Education Association’s first glance at the Michigan/Hillsdale standards for South Dakota’s K-12 social studies curriculum indicated the same problem the American Historical…