The long-awaited vote survived objections from the panel’s most right-leaning Republicans, who criticized the lessons as “un-American woke indoctrination.” ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

The nation’s 250th anniversary is a chance to relearn our founding principles.

For example, the poem near the book’s beginning, Vine a Los Angeles (I came to Los Angeles) melds the Aztec origin myth I ...

Longtime LAist correspondent, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, has reported on local stories for decades, traveling and meeting people ...

Representatives from Mexico, Arizona and the diplomacy world gathered in Chandler to discuss the interlocked futures of the ...

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. Its origin stems ...

Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter ever written. One could say that the audacious statement crafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...