Balogh Making History Public

What professional historians do – and don't – have to offer communities struggling with the Confederate monuments in their midst.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.

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

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.

Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed with students raised on your romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict.

Why our history educations must be better.

Why the Gilded Age was the era of statues.

In history, suppressed memories, stories half-told or lied about, carry greater power for having been suppressed.

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

A series of graphs that help explain why at least 830 monuments were erected many decades after the end of the Civil War.