narrative

The rise of tactical gun culture among civilians reveals a new front in the U.S. battle against nativist authoritarianism.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

The life of Daniel Boone underlines how the North America of the era was a welter of conflict among and between natives and Europeans.

Four decades on, the perpetrators of the El Mozote massacre have not been held to account.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

A comparison of the "Lost Cause" narratives from the Confederacy and Mexico's side of the Mexican-American War.

We can’t allow the impression of a historical lack of diversity in the art form to limit access to the industry today.

How a story told by a fugitive from slavery became a parable of American banking gone bad.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.

Annie Berke reviews Elana Levine's book on a pivotal genre and its diverse fandom.

Early Americans coped with disease through narratives that found divine providence and mercy in suffering.

Variations in the legend of a steel-driving man tell us about differing American views of the value and purpose of work.

A drama about an interracial uprising in colonial Virginia.

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.

Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but we should be wary about what is overlooked in the grandeur.

Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?

It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.

Jon Sternfeld on collective memory and history as instruction.

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.

A pair of new books about US Marshal Wyatt Earp are now out. Only one of them shoots straight.

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

Whether it’s happening or not.