Memory

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

Acknowledging the truth about colonialism is crucial if we want to comprehend the world around us today.

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.

During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.

The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.

A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.

Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.

In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

George Washington gave orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her story lives on.

The American Historical Association's executive director reflects on the purpose of history education.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

On April 27, 1865, a steamboat named the Sultana exploded and an estimated 1,800 people died, but few today have heard of this disaster.

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.

A collection of more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photos of former slaves.

One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.

Columbus Day is here again -- along with the controversy over its namesake. How have earlier generations understood him?

A time before “everyone” knew the story of Christopher Columbus, and the role of Washington Irving’s massive biography in creating the heroic Columbus myth.