Memory

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.

The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.

Under the Trump administration's book police, Jackie Robinson’s life and actions are considered dangerous memories.

Japanese survivors recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and warn of future risks.

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

The Japanese American National Museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations.

From historians to horror writers to white nationalists, attempts to explain the settlement's fate reveal a great deal about our own attitudes.

How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve its history.

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

The Virginia delegate may have spoken those words on March 23, 1775, but some historians doubt it.

On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.

On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago’s Polish Museum of America honored the “Father of American Cavalry,” 280 years after his birth.

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

Using evidence to remind us.

Who decides how history gets written?

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is remarkable not only for his sacrifices on behalf of the Union, but also for the moral imagination that inspired him.

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.

It may sound counterintuitive, but Ken Burns’ version of U.S. history actually has quite a bit in common with Trump’s version.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

And why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally.

When the National Park Service removed trans people from the webpages of the Stonewall National Monument, it echoed one of the darkest chapters of the queer past.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.

The history of deriving political meaning from Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.

How historians changed their approach, from the 1960s to the present.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.