collective memory

The SS Eastland disaster and Chicago's ghosts.

“I’ve learned, through hundreds of interviews and years of research, is that what crack really did was expose every vulnerability of society.”

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

For too long, we've ignored our real history. We must face where truth can take us.

In 1978, an eighth grader from a prominent Austin family killed his teacher. His classmates are still haunted by what happened that terrible day and after.

Commemorating the event that hardened the lines of segregation in the city.

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

Had Bob Dylan not written a song about it, the 1963 killing of a black servant by a white socialite’s cane might have been long forgotten.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.

The first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry and hit Billboard’s country music charts.

Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'

Romanticism, local color, and nostalgic New Orleans.

In the past 3 months, two people in the US have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change US policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.

Loft life above the Fulton Fish Market and the day that everything changed.