Memory

How a spy came to be buried in San Francisco is a forgotten tale of adventure, intrigue, and tragedy.

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

For centuries, stories of Black communities have been limited by racism in the historical record. Now we can finally follow the trails they left behind.

For people of color in particular, cemeteries can be a cruel reminders of trauma both past and present.

Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.

The Founders terrorized and exterminated Native Americans instead of learning from them.

Why are Chicago’s race riots of 1919 overlooked in the city’s collective memory? A new project tells the stories of the 38 killed, and the legacy of racism in the U.S.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.

The conflict between commercialization and historic preservation.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.

The pandemic, like other open wounds, must be remembered with an “open” memorial.

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .

Most Americans are eager to forget 2020. But some are making time capsules to make sure future generations remember it.

While focusing on refuting the Lost Cause narrative, many historians forget to memorialize Black Americans in the post Civil War period.

Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.

How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?

Americans don't need to rely on legends to tell the stories of women in the Revolution.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.

She was one half of a powerhouse academic couple and an influential historian in her own right. But she's still often overlooked.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.