revisionism

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

The way we learn about our collective past is under attack thanks to new leadership at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.

The kinds of narratives historians tend to fall back on constrain our ability to imagine alternatives to the way things have been, and to the way things are.

She was a woman, but she was not the author of the speech attributed to her in popular lore.

New evidence suggests that Sacagawea had a longer life than most historians have believed — fifty-seven years longer.

A museum dedicated to techno music has opened in Frankfurt, Germany, and many genre pioneers feel that Black and queer artists in Detroit have been overlooked.

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.