Memory

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

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.

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol

On October 15th, a tweet by Bunk contributing editor Kevin Levin touched off this fascinating exchange between several historians on the subject of popular history. Among the topics it covered were novelty, craft, context... and the musical Hamilton.

Black resistance to Lost Cause mythology has been a constant of the past 150 years.

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

Two South Carolina lawmakers dust off a familiar trope in an attempt to fight back against Confederate monument removals.

How memory plays tricks with history.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.