Memory

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.

The White House’s decision to delete a DOJ database of Jan. 6 cases puts those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

Despite Chalamet’s best efforts, "A Complete Unknown" is a cookie-cutter Bob Dylan biopic for a legendary artist who deserves something more interesting.

A fascinating new exhibit focuses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.

What’s going on here, and are we ever going to talk about it?

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

What are the most important insights historians have offered about the American Revolution in the decades since the Bicentennial?

A sweeping new history chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by markets and innovation.

Ideas about history still prevailing in the liberal resistance to Trump keep pushing us backward.

One plantation tourist manager said covering slavery would be like “trying to tell the story at Disneyland of how poorly the employees at Disney are treated.”

The hero worship of the family of American royalty has a dark side: a tendency toward conspiracism that fits with the MAGA movement.

When the future arrived, it felt…ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.

The symbols sported by Trump’s defense pick show how the medieval past is being reimagined by Christian nationalists, behind a shield of plausible deniability.

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

The success of “Reagan” reflects the market demands of a more fragmented moviegoing public—and reality.

We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism.

On being defeated.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.