Charlottesville riots (Unite the Right)

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

That history has nothing to do with culture wars, and everything to do with what real justice looks like in the United States, and who has access to it.

Portraying a 19th-century president.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

The white supremacist conspiracy theory that has inspired horrific violence in the past five years dates back to Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo.

Debates between neighbors escalate over the use of Confederate names within a Northern Virginia neighborhood.

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.

A Southern Poverty Law Center study identified over 1,500 publicly-displayed symbols of the Confederacy in the South and beyond.

Artists, museums and other groups are vying to claim fallen monuments from the Jim Crow era — but for very different reasons.

How a decades-long movement helped the far-right fringe gain control of the GOP.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.

Why are politics so consumed with the past?