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Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
The candidates for Miss America 2020 walk in dresses and heels.
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Why We Should Say Goodbye to the Miss America Pageant

The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.

How to Forget

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

Hollow Words

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.
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Monument Wars

This exhibit explores discussions about what we choose to memorialize – and why.

Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

On Statues, History, and Historians

A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.

The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.

The Ruin: Roosevelt Island’s Smallpox Hospital

An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.

How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.
The Old House Chamber has been used as National Statuary Hall since July 1864.

A Senator Speaks Out Against Confederate Monuments… in 1910

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.

What Do We Do With Our Dead?

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.
Calhoun College building at Yale University.

Don’t Repress the Past

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
Lewis and Clark expedition, with Sacagawea whitened out in the center.

How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
Fats Domino's restored white piano in a museum in New Orleans.

An Object Lesson: What The Restoration of Fats Domino's Piano Means to New Orleans

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the legend’s showpiece symbolizes the city's resilience.
Illustration of grave robbing

Body Snatchers of Old New York

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.
Drawings of George Washington

His Highness

George Washington scales new heights.

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