HIST 4491 American West

03/25/2022

The Google Doodle honored the star of a silent movie called “The Toll of the Sea,” which celebrated its 97th anniversary since its release on Wednesday. if(!window.mobileCheck){window.pubg||(window.pubg={queue:[]});pubg.queue.push(function(){pubg.displayAds()})} That star is Anna May Wong, regar...

02/14/2022

The West is experiencing its most severe megadrought in a millennium, according to a new study. Scientists say climate change is playing a major role.

12/17/2020

Deb Haaland would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary. She opposed many Trump environmental rollbacks and considers climate change "the challenge of our lifetime."

11/06/2019

A history worth examining on Indigenous People's Day.

09/04/2019

He was also a war hero and a ballroom dancer — Bald Eagle's life is hard to fit in a headline. He parachuted into Normandy, acted in Westerns and starred in his first feature film at the age of 95.

05/28/2019

The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.

04/29/2019

New excavations of indigenous pit houses in early Las Vegas.

12/12/2018

12/09/2018

“Fear is the opposite of faith … The time we find ourselves in now that is closest found in history is Germany in the 1930s.”