Memory

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.

Confederates’ quest for bones connects to a bizarre history of the use, and misuse, of human remains.

A comparison of the "Lost Cause" narratives from the Confederacy and Mexico's side of the Mexican-American War.

When the US relaxed immigration restrictions in the late 50s, a small Egyptian population emerged. Their early experiences are now available via a new archive.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.

What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later.

While he did not die in a war, he can certainly be mourned as a casualty of war—as can the thousands of other veterans who have died by suicide.

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.

Fake news has been central to the Lost Cause narrative since its inception, employed to justify and amplify the symbolism of Confederate monuments and flags.

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.

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.