Memory

Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?

These collections of everyday objects are clues to strangers’ daily lives.

How and why a Los Angeles folk artist created a vast array of intricate dioramas to form the African American Miniature Museum.

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

The author of a book on paramilitary white supremacy discusses the methods and ethics of researching racial violence.

Reflections from the author of a novel that does not shy away from the question of Lincoln's sexuality.

There were 22 Abrahams at the event, which began in 1990.

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

The 45th president, no student of history, marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.

How can we understand the physical pain of others?

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

A lot has been written about the notorious concert, but so much of the language around it has been passive and exonerating.

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

His reputation was savaged because he had the temerity to question the 'Good War' narrative.

The violent catastrophe of the Virginia colonists is the best founding parable of American history.

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.

How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

“Who would you miss more when he goes on vacation,” Nicholson liked to ask, “the secretary of state or your garbage man?”

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

The technical wizardry of Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" should not obscure its narrow, outdated storyline.

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.

He never denounced slavery and was brutal towards American Indians, but remains a popular figure. Why?

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.