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A Farm Security Administration representative visits Seabrook Farms in New Jersey in May 1938.

Destiny of the Dispossessed Spinach Prince

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about fathers and sons.

by Nick Ripatrazone via The Bulwark on July 25, 2025

The Heritage of Dylann Roof

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.

by Elizabeth Robeson via The Nation on June 17, 2025

George Floyd and the Writing of the Final Chapter of Richmond's Confederate Monuments

Do we as Americans have the strength to confront our complicated past?

by Kevin M. Levin via Civil War Memory on May 25, 2025

Trump from behind, and the Washington monument.

How Trump Wants to Change History

Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to restore “truth and sanity to American history.”

by Adam Rowe via Compact on April 24, 2025

A monument of the Minutemen line in Concord, Massachusetts.

The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.

by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on April 15, 2025

At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 6, 2025

Exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

A Truly Patriotic Education Tells Many Stories

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

by David M. Perry via Foreign Policy on March 31, 2025

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

‘It Reminds You of a Fascist State’: Smithsonian Institution Braces for Trump Rewrite of US History

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

by David Smith via The Guardian on March 30, 2025

Boston’s Faneuil Hall at night.

When Is History Advocacy?

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

by Nick DeLuca via Contingent on March 30, 2025

Richard Nixon scowling.

The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

by Michael Koncewicz via Made By History on March 24, 2025

‘This Land Is Yours’

The missing Black history of upstate New York challenges the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.

by Nell Irvin Painter via New York Review of Books on March 9, 2025

A group of demonstrators at the Stonewall National Monument carrying transgender flags and signs.

No History Without the T

When the National Park Service removed trans people from the webpages of the Stonewall National Monument, it echoed one of the darkest chapters of the queer past.

by Hugh Ryan via Slate on February 16, 2025

A flag depicting a hand pulling back the American flag to reveal a Confederate flag.

Patriotic Education and the End of History

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

by Jeff Sharlet via Scenes from a Slow Civil War on January 30, 2025

Colorful, brightly lit interior of Washington Cathedral.

Reclaiming Medievalism

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

by Richard Utz via Medievalists.net on January 14, 2025

A still of Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan overlaid on the seal of the United States.

The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda

The success of “Reagan” reflects the market demands of a more fragmented moviegoing public—and reality.

by Zach Schonfeld via The Atlantic on November 18, 2024

Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin: As Much Scientist As Statesman

The founding father’s long-overlooked passion for scientific inquiry.

by Richard Munson via Literary Hub on November 14, 2024

An artistic collage juxtiposing a transatlantic slave ship with a tenement in Harlem.

How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Continues to Impact Modern Life

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism.

by Jennifer L. Morgan via Smithsonian Magazine on November 7, 2024

Members of the American Communist Party march with signs at a protest.

The Communist Party Helped Shape US History

A new book tells the story of American communism as an integral part of 20th-century US history, with Communists “as social critics and social change agents.”

by Daniel Colligan via Jacobin on September 16, 2024

Angela Davis standing at podium, speaking at Communist Party USA event.

How and Why American Communism Failed

Plus: One historian’s about-face on the Communist record.

by Ronald Radosh via The Bulwark on August 2, 2024

A colorful illlustration of Texas Rangers, three Tejano men, guns, and alcohol bottles.

After a Borderland Shootout, a 100-Year-Old Battle for the Truth

A century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story their family tells is different than the official account. Whose story counts as Texas history?

by Arelis R. Hernández, Frank Hulley-Jones via Washington Post on May 15, 2024

Attendees at Woodstock festival.

Nine Variations On Pete Townshend and Abbie Hoffman

As legend has it, an onstage altercation took place between the two icons in the middle of The Who's set at Woodstock. Or did it?

by David Susman via North Dakota Quarterly on May 2, 2024

A historical marker outside Fendall Hall, a plantation.

Historical Markers Are Everywhere In America. Some Get History Wrong.

The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.

by Laura Sullivan, Nick McMillan via NPR on April 21, 2024

Lincoln Center on the opening night of the Met Opera, 1966.

Curtains for Lincoln Center

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

by James Panero via The New Criterion on April 17, 2024

Elon Musk's face edited onto Apple advertisements.

A Bullshit Genius

On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.

by Oscar Schwartz via The Drift on March 12, 2024

A photograph of Andrew Johnson.

Tennessee Johnson Reel vs. Real

The real Andrew Johnson compared with the only film made about his life.

by Tom Elmore via Emerging Civil War on February 16, 2024

The Era Without a Name

There’s no one place to learn about the early decades of the 19th century. So I set off to see how that history is being remembered in the places where it happened.

by Ed Ayers on January 17, 2024

Mildred Rutherford’s War

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on November 16, 2023

A collage in which a photograph of Blanche Ames Ames is superimposed on a photograph of John F. Kennedy.

How John F. Kennedy Fell for the Lost Cause

And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.

by Jordan Virtue via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023

A crowd of tourist superimposed over images of Salem attractions and a cemetery.

Salem’s Unholy Bargain: How Tragedy Became an Attraction

Is the cost worth the payoff?

by Lex Pryor via The Ringer on October 30, 2023

Collage of American Indian film characters.

Native Americans on the Silver Screen, From Wild West Shows to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

How American Indians in Hollywood have gone from stereotypes to starring roles.

by Sandra Hale Schulman via Smithsonian Magazine on October 12, 2023

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