Augustana hosted Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss to speak Tuesday night. Schloss was in the death camp with Anne Frank, and after the war, Eva’s mother…
Tag: history
America isn’t just a nation; it is an argument. The American Argument starts with the axiom, “All men are created equal.” The argument proceeds through…
Brooke Jarvis of The New Yorker writes of the ongoing contradictions of our monument-strewn Black Hills. She focuses on the relationship of the Crazy Horse…
I commented earlier this morning that maybe Governor Kristi Noem could implement a bounty system that would encourage kids and parents to go outside together…
In happy blog news, Bob Mercer reports that the Legislative Research Council and the State Library are working on putting more of the Legislature’s historic…
KELO-TV blips a longer AP story about University of Oregon historian Jeffrey Ostler’s new book Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the…
Before Maria Butina invaded the NRA, the Republican Party, and Paul Erickson‘s apartment, the now-imprisoned Russian spy spoke to a crowd of patriotic Muscovites in…
a guest column by Dave Baumeister Yep, I am a true-blue South Dakotan, and I like my guns. You know why? 1.) I am a…
Rookie Congressman Dusty Johnson sounded like he was on the sensible side of South Dakota history in February when he said the Wounded Knee Massacre…