Memory

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.

Distortions in Western history have long obscured the region’s Black communities.

Although the exhibit closed in 1992, the Dickson Mounds Museum is still grappling with its legacy.

University faculty nationwide rebuke Ron DeSantis's recent decision to ban the course from Florida schools.

Louis Fatio seized an opportunity to recount his version of his life—a story that had been distorted and used by white Americans for various political purposes.

A helpful way to think about the JFK assassination, and political assassinations more generally, is to be more Dragnet about it than discursive.

APAAS, Florida, and history.

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.

Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.

A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.

The Natchez USCT not only contributed to the war effort but was essential to establishing a post-war monument honoring President Lincoln and emancipation.

Richmond's last major Confederate memorial on city property, a statue of Gen. A.P. Hill, was taken down Monday morning.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

Still’s detailed record of radical abolitionist action remains a model for creating freedom out of community and community out of freedom.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.