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Texas education board approves Native Studies course, skirting concerns about state’s K-12 DEI ban
The Texas State Board of Education on Friday renewed an elective course that teaches high school students about the history ...
This part of New Mexico is often overlooked, but it’s packed with wonders
Las Cruces, in southwestern New Mexico, is nourished by the Rio Grande River and the fertile Mesilla Valley, surrounded by the Chihuahuan Desert and backed in the east ...
A New History of the Western Hemisphere
The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...
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Los Angeles is the ink I used to write this book
For example, the poem near the book’s beginning, Vine a Los Angeles (I came to Los Angeles) melds the Aztec origin myth I ...
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Writing an LA life
Longtime LAist correspondent, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, has reported on local stories for decades, traveling and meeting people ...
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CSKT, other tribes seek more say in Columbia River Basin treaty - The Missoulian
The treaty governs how the United States and Canada manage the Columbia River system, which covers 259,000 square miles of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.