William Tecumseh Sherman

George Henry Thomas, southerner in blue.

The 19th-century antecedent to today’s complaints of labor shortage.

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.

How African Americans came to Indian Territory after the Civil War.

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.