Freedom, as it has historically been understood in the English-speaking world, includes as fundamental assumptions a cultural norm of individualism and a government that does not attempt to assume the ...

Factors such as group migration and cultural assimilation were also included in the analysis. Radiocarbon dates as a demographic proxy The researchers used radiocarbon dating as a basis for this model ...

This summer, I visited New York City for the first time. As a former resident of the Big Apple, my father was my designated tour guide. He immigrated from Algeria to the United States in 1995, when he ...

Acculturation is a key concept in understanding how cultural context shapes individuals and communities. Berry (1997) describes acculturation as the process of cultural and psychological change that ...

Theater Wit, in collaboration with the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern and Northlight Theatre, will host CityTalk: A Series of Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism and ...

New information about the United States' long-documented history of atrocities against Native Americans continues to emerge to this day, as was recently the case in Colorado, where a new investigative ...

A dozen Native American boarding schools in Kansas supported the federal government's mission of forced cultural assimilation as part of a tribal land grab, a new report states. The boarding schools, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: I rarely agree with contributing writer Josh Hammer’s op-eds. That said, I agree with him about ...

In 1975, a largely unknown 23-year-old actor named Carol Kane starred in Joan Micklin Silver’s film Hester Street as Gitl, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side around ...