Memory

It wasn't simply a matter of getting the history right.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

Locomotives. Not trains. Locomotives.

Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.

Gaming in the shadow Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally.

Some historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin.

Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.

In an open letter, an encyclopedia editor stands behind the use of the term "white supremacy" to describe the UDC's work.

A century-old image and the film it inspired.

Each one flown outside the slave states amounts to an admission that the flag represents whiteness, not Southernness.

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed by government or demonstrators.

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?

Why our history educations must be better.

Most early pioneer statues celebrated whites dominating American Indians.

What variables make a woman's inclusion in history more likely?

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds.

As historians turn their attention to animals, they are shedding new light on what it means to be human.

Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.

Muzzleloaders have evolved into smart-style automatic firearms in just 150 years.

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.