I wanted a history class that focused more on my history. History is viewed as important because it’s necessary to know where you came from, and this African American history class is teaching me more ...

To the editor: The only thing I would add to Nicholas Goldberg’s column about the need for students to learn U.S. history is a focus on recent history. It’s my understanding that many of today’s high ...

So much about the world is broken right now. The planet is boiling, inequality is skyrocketing, and government gridlock is more darkly comic than ever. The Hollywood industrial complex regurgitates ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. AMHERST — African American soldiers from Amherst who served in the famed 54th ...

Author Gabe Henry discussed why he thinks that spelling in the English language is "absurd." He spoke at the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C.

Your first couple years in college, you take pretty standard stuff. English 1, English 2, American History 1: Pre-World War I, American History 2: Post-World War I, Economics 1, etc. But once you ...