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Statues, National Monuments, and Settler-Colonialism

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Columbus Circle Without Columbus?

New York's statue debate hits Italian-Americans hard.
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

Kings of the Confederate Road

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 

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

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.
Banthe Bombers protest photograph by Richard Avedon.

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Joint Examination of American Identity

Their 1964 collaboration, "Nothing Personal," brought together aspects of American life and culture through photographs and text.
George Washington statue at Federal Hall

The Next Lost Cause

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History

The early-morning action is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue’s removal.

How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.
Reagan signing the bill establishing Martin Luther King Day.

The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

Idylls of the Liberal

The American dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Colonial Casta painting.

Theorizing Race in the Americas

What are Latin American ideas about race, and how have they been formed in relation to the U.S. and vice versa?

Understanding the Antifa

The anti-fascist left stems from a long tradition of violence and protest in America.

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.
White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug 12, 2017.

The ACLU's Free Speech Stance Should Be About Social Justice, Not 'Timeless' Principles

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.
Police security guarding Confederate monument.

Local Officials Want to Remove Confederate Monuments—but States Won't Let Them

Laws preventing the removal of statues raise questions not only about historical legacy but also about local control and public safety.

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

An Intimate History of Antifa

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” by Mark Bray, is part history, part how-to.

Charlottesville and the Mississippi Flag

A group of historians takes a stand for the removal of the Confederate emblem from their state's flag.
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.

We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

This Is Why You’re Seeing The Confederate Flag Across Europe

It was shocking to see the flag greet Trump in Poland. But Europeans — some of them white supremacist — have waved it for years.
Political cartoon depicting American colonies celebrating July 4th.

American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico

Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs while subsidizing American profits.
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Ida B. Wells Offered The Solution To Police Violence More Than 100 Years Ago

The answer runs through the history of anti-lynching laws.
James Buchanan

What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

The Necessity of Juneteenth

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.

The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

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