Meet gary. he has a great credit score and little credit card debt, with only two cards and owing $2,000 on each with a 10% interest rate. he has been working at his current job for four years with a steady income

deists, human beings can know god only via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or by supernatural manifestations (such as miracles

the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to native american children on reservations. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the bureau of indian affairs (bia) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation carlisle indian industrial school.

disease was the number one killer of native peoples. they had had little exposure to the diseases of europe. this led to some villages being almost completely wiped out and some tribes destroyed.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”