Memory

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.

Expanding the radical promise of the American Revolution.

Confederate Statues aren't the only reminder of the Civil War - the US Army still has major bases named for Confederate soldiers.

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.

Officials in a number of towns and cities are putting up signs to explain the monuments' racist history.

At a ceremony Wednesday, leaders remembered the Ponca chief whose court case established that Native Americans were people.

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.

A new curriculum from the American Indian Museum brings greater depth and understanding to the long-misinterpreted history of indigenous culture.

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

When Civil War reenacting began, it was largely the province of folks who wished to uphold the Old South myth. Now, a more diverse group of reenactors is pushing back.

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

"I get teary-eyed with my students."

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.

Archaeologists help modern descendants of Chinese railroad workers in Utah commemorate their ancestors' labor and lives.

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.