Memory

Channeling conservative, white anger about public schools is a long-running political strategy.

Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.

We have good reason to remember the story of what happened to hubristic rich people, and the imprisoned poor, in an enormous opulent floating palace.

On the robbing of Indigenous graves throughout the 19th-century.

A striking photo project reveals the maintenance yards, cemeteries, and shipping containers where many of the memorials to white supremacy ended up.

Why it's so important to remember even our ugliest and most racist chapters.

Cailloux’s valor, and the Black troops he led in battle, electrified northern opinion and gave federal race policy a strong jolt.

Across party lines, Americans actually agree on teaching “divisive concepts.”

Over a 100 years ago, white mobs organized by white elites and planters in Arkansas swarmed into rural Black sharecropping communities in the Arkansas Delta.

Board games invite discussions of counterfactuality and contingency, resisting the teleology and determinism that are so common to looking backward in time.

Who was Henry Ellett? Looking at his grave you wouldn't know much about him.

Land acknowledgments stating that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples are popular. But they may do more harm than good.

This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

The omnipresence of slavery at historic sites today seems intended to tarnish remarkable achievements and promote the cause of identity politics.

America, you’ve got the dates wrong. Your intense debate over which year marks the real beginning of the United States—1619 (slavery’s arrival) or 1776.

A massive assessment of the nation's current monument landscape, posing questions about common knowledge and debunking misperceptions within public memory.

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.

By offering the group as a model for present-day politics, Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP reproduces the movement’s failures and exclusions.

The Legacy Museum lands at a time when racial violence is on the rise and critical race theory is used to prevent America’s racist past being taught in schools.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.

The way we commemorate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice dates to the Civil War.

Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the museum is still struggling to address the legacy of those events.

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.