Our failing education system is leading us down a dangerous road. America is in the midst of an education crisis, ranging from newborns to college students, and it is ubiquitous. In an under-reported story from August, a study by researchers at five universities found that babies born during the Covid pandemic show reduced verbal, motor, […]
Is America in Decline?
Photo by Specialist Steven Hitchcock/US Army/Flickr An extraordinary new Pentagon study has concluded that the US-backed framework of international order established after World War II is “fraying” and may even be “collapsing,” leading the United States to lose its position of “primacy” in world affairs. The solution proposed to protect US power in this new […]
Amerigo Vespucci named America by mistake | OpenMind
Several names of the United States of America are in common use. Formal alternatives to the full name include the “United States”, “America”, as well as the initialisms “U.S.” and the “U.S.A.”; colloquial names include “the States” and the “U.S. of A.” It is generally accepted that the name “America” derives from the Italian explorer […]
Sugar Factory
Sugar Factory American Brasserie, America’s favorite eatery and celebrity hotspot, will expand with its newest location in Minnesota’s famed Mall of America®, opening to the public November 12, 2019. The location, located on level 3, South, will include a full-service café and confectionary shop; retail store; indoor and outdoor dining areas; two full-service bars and […]
Date of Entry – Stately Knowledge: Facts about the United States| ipl: Information You Can Trust
Map of the United States with names and borders of states The order in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal […]
A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.