Memory

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

Stories about the past can help communities create an identity of which they can be proud. This was certainly the case at Christiana.

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

A public historian recommends tactics for explaining an oft-left out period.

The discovery of a lost shipwreck has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

Some people are young, just not you.

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

There are two ways to understand John Maynard Keynes: tracing his influences and legacies, and highlighting the ideas and perspectives he missed.

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

At museums across the South, you'll often find a white woman cooking in a big house kitchen. That's a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.

Gameplay can be useful in history classrooms – but manufacturers have to think about how children will be affected by the competition.

The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

On folk hero John Henry.

Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.