Memory

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.

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

Simone's birthplace in Tryon, North Carolina, was declared a National Treasure. Now, local events celebrate her and raise money for preservation efforts.

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.

Why it matters what language we use to describe what happened in 1919.

A proposal to follow the model several former Soviet States have pioneered, to deal with our own monuments to the Confederacy.