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‘They Was Killing Black People’: A Century-Old Race Massacre Still Haunts Tulsa

Even as Black Wall Street gentrifies, unresolved questions remain about one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Washington Post on September 28, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

“A More Beautiful and Terrible History” Corrects the Fables Told of the Civil Rights Movement

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeneé Darden via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 16, 2018
Cartoon depiction of a labor strike

“Labor Day” Isn’t Labor Day

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?
by Sam Wallman via The Nib on September 3, 2018

People Keep Shooting Up The Sign Commemorating Emmett Till’s Murder

It has been a target of vandals ever since it was dedicated.
by Alex Horton via Retropolis on August 5, 2018

Citizens to Come: Building Beyond the 14th Amendment

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.
by Sonya Posmentier via Public Books on July 10, 2018

When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via The Atlantic on July 3, 2018
Cover of "First Martyr of Liberty," featuring a painting of Crispus Attucks facing a British soldier with a bayonet.

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
by Mitch Kachun, Stephen G. Hall via Black Perspectives on May 30, 2018

The Fading Battlefields of World War I

A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on May 28, 2018
Political cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt holding his Big Stick and pulling a naval fleet in the Caribbean (1904).

Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Claim Theodore Roosevelt as Their Own

Our 26th President is lauded as an environmentalist, as well as an empire builder.
by Michael Patrick Cullinane via Zócalo Public Square on April 20, 2018

Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.
by Elizabeth Merritt via American Alliance of Museums on April 3, 2018

The History of Military Parades in the U.S.

The Trump Administration has clamored for a military parade. What are the origins of tank-led celebrations?
by Marissa Fessenden via Smithsonian on February 7, 2018
A painting of George Washington.
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What Is Presidents’ Day Actually About?

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.
by Livia Gershon, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on February 3, 2018

Why Doesn't Garfield Assassination Site on the National Mall Have a Marker?

A new campaign by historians seeks to bring recognition to the site where the 20th president was shot.
by Jason Daley via Smithsonian on January 25, 2018

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.
by Anna Badkhen via Literary Hub on November 21, 2017

The Unintended Consequences of Veterans' Day

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.
by Paul Steege via Hindsights on November 10, 2017

Confronting the Legacy of the Civil War: The Forgotten Front

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.
by George Black via The Nation on October 26, 2017

A Sign On Scrubland Marks One of America's Largest Slave Uprisings

The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies, but it is barely commemorated.
by Adam Gabbatt via The Guardian on October 24, 2017
African American medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their fists raised during the national anthem at the 1968 Olympics.

Reparation as Fantasy

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.
by Jamal Ratchford via Process: A Blog for American History on October 15, 2017

Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
by Lance Warren via Longreads on October 13, 2017
Album with Che Guevara's hair, fingerprints, and photos of his body.

The Death of Che Guevara Declassified

A CIA memo shows that US officials considered his execution a crucial victory—but they were mistaken in believing Che’s ideas could be buried along with his body.
by Peter Kornbluh via The Nation on October 10, 2017

The History Behind the Movement to Replace Columbus Day

Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.
by Arica L. Coleman via Made By History on October 6, 2017

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.
by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017
Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017
Demonstrators hold signs arguing to "Save Sacco & Vanzetti"
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Is There a Place in Public History for Sacco and Vanzetti?

Ninety years after the duo was executed, there are virtually no physical markers in Boston commemorating them.
by Stephanie E. Yuhl, Peter Feuerherd via JSTOR Daily on August 23, 2017

The Monuments We Never Built

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.
by Brian Hamilton via Edge Effects on August 22, 2017

The 19th-Century African-American Actor Who Conquered Europe

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.
by Natasha Frost via Atlas Obscura on August 7, 2017
Fourth of July fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Partisans Often Try To Claim July 4 As Their Own. It Usually Backfires.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Made by History on July 3, 2017

How Charleston Celebrated Its Last July 4 Before the Civil War

As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and rebellion.
by Paul Starobin via What It Means to Be American on June 29, 2017

Why Has America Named So Many Places After a French Nobleman?

The Marquis de Lafayette's name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner
by Laura Auricchio via Zócalo Public Square on June 22, 2017

The Necessity of Juneteenth

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2017
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