Years ago I learned an African term called “Sankofa” that illustrates the importance of learning from the past. Sankofa means “it’s not wrong to go back for what has been left behind or forgotten.” ...

I’m going to take us all back on a journey through Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine, to a time before ghost towns actually became ghost towns in Oklahoma, both before and after statehood. When real people ...