Memory

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.

Efforts in early America to educate Black children offer us a template for addressing educational inequality today.

For members of the Hip Hop generation who came of age during the Black Power era, “reality rap” was an entry into the political power of Black history.

Georgia’s Richard Russell was an unrepentant racist. You’d think a name change would be a no-brainer. And yet...

After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.

America has been declaring war on Black education since this country’s beginnings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Stop Woke Act seeks to continue this tradition.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.

How should a republic honor its leaders?

In the 1960s, Annette Gordon-Reed was the first Black child to enroll in a white school in her hometown. Now she reflects on having a new school there named for her.

We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

As the 20th century’s preeminent scholar-activist on race, W.E.B. Du Bois would not be surprised by modern-day attempts at whitewashing American history.

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.