Memory

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

We might be better off if we knew a little more – or a little less – about her actual life.

Few who are memorialized in stone could fully pass moral muster today. Is that a problem?

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

California Is adopting LGBT-Inclusive history textbooks. It's the latest chapter in a centuries-long fight.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.

Every year, a group in New Orleans gets together to celebrate the birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, who they believe was framed.

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

Once General Robert E. Lee’s right-hand man, General Longstreet would become known as ‘the Judas of the Lost Cause.’

I didn't know the Confederate general owned slaves. I didn't even know he was part of the Confederacy.

John Kelly's statement about the Civil War is not surprising, but they are a reminder that we should still be worrying about the Civil War.

The South's insistence upon protecting and spreading slavery caused the Civil War.

Yes, honorable men can fight for dishonorable causes.

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

A selection of primary sources compiled by the American Historical Association.

The White House chief of staff set off a firestorm Monday after his comments on the Confederate general.

The memorials to the two parishioners will be relocated to a new place of “respectful prominence.”

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.

The early-morning action is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue’s removal.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.

The alt-right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

He was a well-known figure in early America, but the name of Warner Mifflin has all but faded from the nation's memory.

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

In history, suppressed memories, stories half-told or lied about, carry greater power for having been suppressed.