Memory

Fulbright created an exchange program which sends Americans abroad and advances international engagement and mutual understanding. Yet it’s not his only legacy.

An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.

You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends…

For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.

The Pennsylvanian was one of America’s greatest heroes. Why hasn’t he gotten his due?

Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people—including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.

Paul Landis, 88, is one of the few survivors who had a firsthand view of Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago Wednesday. He is only now telling his whole story.

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

Reenactments of the frontier west, complete with cowboy shootouts on main streets, reproduce a narrative of history that is widely accepted by millions.

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.

Two new books attempt to grasp Thoreau’s seeming contradictions without reconciling them too easily.

Touring the palimpsests of cities.

Maintaining the internet data of dead people.

For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans.

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

It’s because the rapper’s life and work were a cascade of contradictions that we’re still trying to figure him out today.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

One La Jolla family’s story illuminates a persistent gap in our collective memory.

Over a century after one of New York City’s deadliest industrial accidents, the names of its victims, most of them women, are being enshrined in steel.

An interactive map of lynching markers in the United States.

The famous disaster razed a metropolis and spread a pack of colorful lies. To sift through the ashes today is to encounter some uncomfortable truths.

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

Pence invoked them at the Republican debates, but a true reckoning with their history provides a different vision of the nation’s future.

Fifty years ago, parents united to get the far-right John Birch Society out of their schools.

Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.

A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian.

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. Here's why that’s so significant, if true.

Few realize that the approval process for these outdoor signs varies widely by state and organization, enabling unsanctioned displays to slip through.

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.