1619 Project

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association.

Responding to a controversial recent critique of "presentism," two historians make the case that history and politics have always been deeply interwoven.

The real problem the most powerful people on the right and center have with the “new” history — and the humanities in general — is not that it practices identity politics, but that it rejects theirs.

What the recent debates over presentism get wrong.

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home. 

The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.

Why can’t America see that?

The fevered hunt for basic symbols.

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.

As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.