Memory

The state's only Confederate memorial, a stone on Georges Island, has been boarded up since June while the state ponders its fate.

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

The city isn't rushing to put it back up.

The only logic to honoring Lee is to honor treason and treason in the worst possible cause.

Jefferson had a complicated relationship with white supremacy.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle have tried to stake a claim to the power of the Kennedy legend. What is it about Camelot?

Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were brutally murdered, possibly by Lizzie herself, in August 1892. Why are we still dissecting the crime?

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

They force us to remember the worst parts of our history.

The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

This negates a commonly used defense that Confederate symbols represent ‘heritage not hate’.

As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and rebellion.

A nation divided, even at birth.

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

The Marquis de Lafayette's name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner.

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

The fight against civil rights brought it back.

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.

How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.

It has less to do with the state's role in the Civil War, and more to do with backlash to the Civil Rights movement.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.