Memory

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.

To understand the right’s plans for Babbitt, look to George Shiffler.

After 9/11, hundreds of pieces of steel debris were catalouged. Much of it ended up in small municipal memorials and in other locations around the country.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

First responders who survived 9/11 don’t want the day to be forgotten.

At the South Carolina State House, the history of Reconstruction has been systemically erased from view.

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.

Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes.

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.