Memory

In the United States, the Populist tradition has always defined left-wing and egalitarian politics, unfairly maligned by bosses and intellectuals alike.

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

Colonial Williamsburg has acknowledged to the LGBTQ community that people like them “have always existed.”

Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi Gras. Gail thought they were going to kill her.

The Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands—something that continues today in the tourism industry.

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

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 recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bloody Elaine Massacre sought to correct the historical record and start hard conversations.

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.