Erin L. Thompson

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

Targeted even when unarmed, around 70 percent of the Black Union troops who fought in the 1864 battle died as a result of the clash.

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

Research shows that visitors often ignore information that conflicts with what they already believe about history.