
Eastern Standard: January 22nd, 2026
York was William Clark's personal slave and accompanied the Lewis and Clark 'Voyage of Discovery' as a fully participating member of the expedition.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock)
We Americans are marking the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding with diverging accounts — sometimes offered from irreconcilably different perspectives — of what has gone down in this country since 1776. This week on Eastern Standard we present two views that in many ways defy what we have been taught about American racial and indigenous history. Literary contributor Kevin Nance sits down with Kristine Yohe and…
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