William Tecumseh Sherman

In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.

A pair of new books about US Marshal Wyatt Earp are now out. Only one of them shoots straight.

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long.

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

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

Few who are memorialized in stone could fully pass moral muster today. Is that a problem?

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.