Memory

From 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' to 'We Were the Lucky Ones,' a new wave of Holocaust dramas feel surprisingly shallow.

A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.

The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.

As legend has it, an onstage altercation took place between the two icons in the middle of The Who's set at Woodstock. Or did it?

The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.

A quarter century on, the school shooters’ mythology has propagated a sprawling subculture that idolizes murder and mayhem.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms.

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

The struggles of a century ago show that historians need to keep explaining their work and role to the public.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days.

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

How one house can contain larger stories of American migration and growth, reckonings with exclusion, and the advent of new technologies.

Native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.

Descendants of the first settlers in Nicodemus are working to preserve and share a story of grit, perseverance, self-governance, and homecomings.

The SS Eastland disaster and Chicago's ghosts.

Our thinking about nostalgia is badly flawed because it relies on defective assumptions about progress and time.

At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.

Who was buried in the lonely grave in New York’s potter’s field? The year-long search led to a lost world in the history of AIDS.

On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.

The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies.

A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.

This is the story of Giovanni da Verrazzano, who never reached Asia, but became the first European to set foot on the site of the future city of New York.

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

Isaiah Bowman was one of the worst college presidents in American history.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.