Memory

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.

Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.

A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.

The Natchez USCT not only contributed to the war effort but was essential to establishing a post-war monument honoring President Lincoln and emancipation.

Richmond's last major Confederate memorial on city property, a statue of Gen. A.P. Hill, was taken down Monday morning.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

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

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

Still’s detailed record of radical abolitionist action remains a model for creating freedom out of community and community out of freedom.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?

Perhaps no Native American is more admired for military acumen than the Lakota leader. But is that how he wanted to be remembered?

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association.

Telling a spooky story around a campfire—or in a dorm room—may be the best way to keep a local legend alive.

Viewed as public memory, the Crisis has an extraordinarily useful function today: a nuclear warning for the future.