Memory

Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.

Montana's emblematic Glacier National Park reveals the impact of human history and culture.

The first Americans weren't one group of people; they arrived at different times, and likely by different methods.

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

Olivia Hooker was 6 at the time of the riot, considered to be one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.

When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.

A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.

It’s an exhaustive list. Far longer and deeper than you might suspect.

Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.

History is coming to life, and scholars are debating the merits of this wave of re-creation and manipulation.

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

Understanding the complex history of the Confederate flag.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

Our 26th President is lauded as an environmentalist, as well as an empire builder.

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."

History suggests otherwise.