revisionism

How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.

A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide a desired racial story.

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.

Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.

Memphis wants to remove a statue honoring first grand wizard of the KKK.

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.

The real Andrew Johnson compared with the only film made about his life.

There’s no one place to learn about the early decades of the 19th century. So I set off to see how that history is being remembered in the places where it happened.

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.

Is the cost worth the payoff?

How American Indians in Hollywood have gone from stereotypes to starring roles.

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.