Memory

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”

The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.

Americans have erected countless monuments to past wars. But how do we pay tribute to the fallen in a conflict that may never end?

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

In the years after the Civil War, lecturers like E. L. Allen regaled audiences with heartwarming and dramatic tales of battle.

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.

It is not just what is remembered that is important, but how it is remembered.

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long.

An online forum on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

When the descendants of a 1918 massacre applied for a historical marker, they learned that not everyone wants to remember one of Texas’ darkest days.

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

Memorials of World War I should focus on the truth—that it was bloody and pointless.

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

Who in the reproductive rights debate can claim Susan B. Anthony?

The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives.

His accounts of polarization in ancient Athens are as relevant today they were thousands of years ago.

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.