Memory

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?

Yale adopts a new approach to deciding whether Calhoun College and other university properties need new names.

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

Activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by people on board.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?

A Harvard education professor explains how far we've come in answering some of the most important questions in education since the famous Coleman report.

How Depression-Era racial dynamics may have shaped our understanding of antebellum enslaved life.

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.

Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

“Terrible, terrible! A thousand casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and children. Most brutal thing…” — James Joyce, Ulysses

A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.

How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.

The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.