Grace Elizabeth Hale

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.

In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could have mass appeal without being cheesy, or nostalgic, or playing hair metal.

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.