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French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020

The Question of Monuments

Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 13, 2020

Buffalo’s Vanished Maritime Past

The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?
by Jeff Z. Klein via Belt Magazine on July 9, 2020
Emancipation Memorial seen through fence grating

What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments

In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'
by Jonathan W. White, Scott Sandage via Smithsonian on June 30, 2020
Robert E. Lee Memorial covered in graffiti and projections and surrounded by protesters.

The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
by Karen L. Cox via Karen L. Cox Blog on June 30, 2020
Two people in a horse-drawn carriage

Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
via The Public Domain Review on June 19, 2020
A nurse takes a patient's pulse in the influenza ward. Patient beds are divided by bedsheets. The nurse wears a swath of white fabric around her face.

Commemorating the Nurses of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.
by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on June 12, 2020
Historical marker in Artillery Park.

Cast in Iron?

Rethinking our historical monuments.
by Jaime Fuller via AdirondackLife on June 1, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.
by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies

New York City is considering burying victims of Covid-19 in public parks, many of which were already built on top of burial grounds.
by Eleanor Cummins via Vice on April 6, 2020
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Red Chicago

A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.
via Future Of America's Past on March 12, 2020

The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.
by W. Ralph Eubanks via The New Yorker on February 23, 2020
U.V.A. Inauguration Day 1921

Jefferson’s Shadow

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.
by Brendan Wolfe via Medium on January 29, 2020

It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
by Mark Engler via The Nation on January 17, 2020
Statue of Thomas Jefferson and an American flag.
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Jefferson's Other Legacy: Religious Liberty

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.
by Cameron Addis via HNN on January 10, 2020
A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019
Left: Place de la Concorde. Number 6 in the series Curiosités Parisiennes, early 20th century. Postcard; offset lithography. Courtesy Leonard A. Lauder. Right: Monolite Mussolini Dux, via Wikimedia Commons

The 20th-Century Obelisk, From Imperialist Icon to Phallic Symbol

Amid all the imperial aspiration, wooly-minded New Age mythologizing, and pure unadulterated commerce, the obelisk stands tall.
by Anthony Grafton, Brian A. Curran, Pamela O. Long, Benjamin Weiss via The MIT Press Reader on December 16, 2019

Whose Boots on the Ground

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
by Kiley Bense via Longreads on November 7, 2019
A map showing where Laurel Cemetery is

The Grim History Hidden Under a Baltimore Parking Lot

After an African-American cemetery was bulldozed, families wondered what happened to the graves.
by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on October 25, 2019
Chinese railroad camp.

Remembering the Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers

Archaeologists help modern descendants of Chinese railroad workers in Utah commemorate their ancestors' labor and lives.
by Veronica Peterson via Sapiens on August 22, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

Hundreds of Black Deaths in 1919 are Being Remembered

America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened.
by Jesse J. Holland via AP News on July 24, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

‘Ready To Explode’

How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago.
by William Lee via Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2019

A Black Medic Saved Hundreds on D-Day. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor?

Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.
by Jesse Greenspan via HISTORY on June 4, 2019
A group of people celebrating Pride outside of Stonewall.

Stonewall: The Making of a Monument

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.
by Cheryl Furjanic via New York Times Op-Docs on June 4, 2019
Painting depicting Jamestown Fort under construction.

Learning from Jamestown

The violent catastrophe of the Virginia colonists is the best founding parable of American history.
by Brianna Rennix via Current Affairs on March 15, 2019
Drawing of Ann Reeves Jarvis carrying blankets in a hospital.

The Mother of Mother's Day

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.
by Allyson Shwed via The Nib on May 11, 2018
Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.
by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Restoring King

There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Jacobin on January 16, 2018

On Monuments and Public Lands

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on September 15, 2017

What Time Capsules, Meant for Future Americans, Say About How We See Ourselves Today

We used to fill our time capsules with fancy stuff. Now we put in junk.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 8, 2017
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