Memory

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.

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.

What if America's inability to agree on its shared history—and how to teach it—is a cause of our polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom?

I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.

An university press editor considers the merits and limitations of biography as a scholarly form.

Why the statesmen of the Roman Republic had such an influence on the patriots of the Revolutionary era.

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.