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Washington is Named for a President who Owned Slaves. Should It Be?

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?
by Ron Judd via The Seattle Times on October 11, 2020
Confederate soldiers on horses on a golf course

What’s in a Name? For Some Clubs in the South, Uneasy Ties to the Confederacy.

Golf clubs named after Confederate generals are attracting new scrutiny.
by Tom Cunneff via Golf Digest on September 30, 2020

Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.
by Keri Blackinger via The Marshall Project on July 29, 2020

Will MLB Confront Its Racist History?

The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
by Peter Dreier via Dissent on July 22, 2020
Robert Smalls

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
by Aderson François via The New Republic on July 3, 2020
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Yes, President Trump, Confederate Base Names Celebrate Heritage — a Shameful One

Why removing the names of Confederates from military bases matters.
by Chad Williams via Made By History on July 2, 2020

Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases

It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military instillations.
by David Patraeus via The Atlantic on June 9, 2020
African Americans gather near a Confederate monument.

The Confederacy’s Long Shadow

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.
by Dierdre Mask via The Economist on April 2, 2020

California’s Forgotten Confederate History

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?
by Kevin Waite via The New Republic on August 19, 2019
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Rethinking the Construction of Ronald Reagan's Legacy

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.
by Sarah Thomson via Made By History on August 12, 2019

Muslims of Early America

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 20, 2019
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.
by Dedra McDonald Birzer via National Review on June 26, 2018

Washington and Lee Confronts Its History

When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.
by Scott Jaschik via Inside Higher Ed on May 29, 2018

Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is Racially Insensitive — But We Should Still Read It

Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.
by Caroline Fraser via Washington Post on May 13, 2018

How One College Succeeded at Grappling With a Racist Past

Comparing the methods of Oxford University in the U.K. with those of the University of Mississippi shows there’s much to learn.
by Timothy W. Ryback via The Atlantic on September 19, 2017

The Day White Virginia Stopped Admiring Gen. Robert E. Lee and Started Worshiping Him

Stripping Virginia of its Lee tributes is far harder than it is in other places.
by Steve Hendrix via Retropolis on August 23, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

Confederate Statues Honor Timeless Virtues — Let Them Stay

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.
by Arthur Herman via National Review on August 19, 2017

Is it Still Okay to Venerate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.
by David A. Bell via Washington Post on August 17, 2017

By Retiring a Seal, Harvard Wages War on the Dead — but to What End?

Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.
by Ted Gup via Washington Post on March 18, 2016
Calhoun College building at Yale University.

Don’t Repress the Past

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
by James Livingston via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 20, 2015

Don’t Tear Down Confederate Monuments – Do This Instead

Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?
by Jack Hitt via Reuters on July 23, 2015
Names in Ellis Island log of immigrants.

Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)

It is more likely that immigrants were their own agents of change.
by Philip Sutton via The New York Public Library on July 2, 2013
A torn border fence is bent into the shape of the Americas.

What America Can Learn From the Americas

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 7, 2025

Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore Would Make More Historical Sense Than You Think

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
by Matthew Davis via Slate on March 13, 2025
Lincoln Center on the opening night of the Met Opera, 1966.

Curtains for Lincoln Center

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.
by James Panero via The New Criterion on April 17, 2024
Georgetown University building.

Confronting Georgetown’s History of Enslavement

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.
by Paul Elie via The New Yorker on June 27, 2023
Left: cover of "The New Yorkers," a book by Sam Roberts, featuring a collage of black and white photographs of different people. Right: 1884 illustration of British soldiers in long coats fighting with New York men
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Isaac Sears and the Roots of America in New York

Like so many other reluctant revolutionaries in New York, he seemed the antithesis of the rabble in arms that the British identified with the mobocracy.
by Sam Roberts via HNN on October 23, 2022
Chains with ivy on it

Endowed by Slavery

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2022
Painting of Yosemite Valley

How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape

Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.
by B. 'Toastie' Oaster via High Country News on May 1, 2022
Chart of when Confederate monuments and namings occurred, with peaks in the 1910s and the 1960s.

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy

A Southern Poverty Law Center study identified over 1,500 publicly-displayed symbols of the Confederacy in the South and beyond.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on February 1, 2022
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