Memory

The story of the 1890 massacre was often about the end of Native American resistance to US expansion. But that’s not how everyone told it.

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

Nearly 60 years after FDR authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, California plans to apologize for its role.

Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.

Can experiencing elements of what is was like in the past make us better historians?

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

A frontier character's life was crafted to be legendary, but was the real person as incredible?

Commemorating the event that hardened the lines of segregation in the city.

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

Stories about the past can help communities create an identity of which they can be proud. This was certainly the case at Christiana.

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

A public historian recommends tactics for explaining an oft-left out period.

The discovery of a lost shipwreck has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

Some people are young, just not you.

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

There are two ways to understand John Maynard Keynes: tracing his influences and legacies, and highlighting the ideas and perspectives he missed.

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.