President Barack Obama will today officially restore the name “Denali” to Mt. McKinley, restoring the traditional Athabascan name for Alaska’s and North America’s highest peak. Some Republicans are already complaining…
Tag: history
Listening to South Dakota Public Radio this morning, I think I heard Secretary of Education Melody Schopp say that the new K-12 social studies standards approved by…
Mr. Kurtz roasts Allen Unruh for the conservative chiropractor’s anti-gay, anti-Supreme Court screed in that Sioux Falls paper. Analyzing Unruh’s words is usually a recipe for heartburn,…
Which story is bigger: George McGovern had two children outside of marriage, or J. Edgar Hoover used the powers of the FBI to dig up…
Sorry, Leo…. On Thursday, columnist Lawrence Diggs of Roslyn advised the Gettysburg Police Department to stop displaying the Confederate flag on its uniform patches. Diggs said apologists for…
The Aberdeen American News asks its reader panel whether the Gettysburg Police Department should be displaying the traitor flag of the Confederacy on its official…
A healthy, democratic petition mania continues to grip South Dakota. The Sioux Falls Historical Society is hosting a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 7 p.m. at the Sioux…
Brad Ford continues his tradition of bring to Gordon Howie’s blog ramblings ranging from coded to incomprehensible. In this week’s offering, Ford says something about the…
Concern for history and brand equity keeps the state Board on Geographic Names from replacing the name of a colonialist Indian killer William Hareny on South Dakota’s highest peak with a…
I’m with Mr. Kurtz, who rightly gripes about Gettysburg’s tone-deafness on their display of the traitor flag on their city police uniforms. So would be the writers…