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Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

Distortions in Western history have long obscured the region’s Black communities.

A chatbot billed as an educational tool falsely portrays historical figures, including dictators and Nazis, as apologetic for their crimes.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?

In a 2004 interview, then-President George W. Bush told the 9/11 Commission that he didn't know Al Qaeda had plans to strike the US. Records show otherwise.

Today, it’s still nearly impossible to see the Black people whose presence, tramped down for a century and a half, is why this commemorative landscape exists.

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

Our food system could have been so different.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.