Ed Ayers

John Kelly's statement about the Civil War is not surprising, but they are a reminder that we should still be worrying about the Civil War.

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.

Stripping Virginia of its Lee tributes is far harder than it is in other places.

The History Guys look at who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them.

The Richmond Bread Riot broke out during the Civil War when working-class women in the South became fed up with food shortages.

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.

Ed Ayers visits the site where the transcontinental railroad was completed. He considers the project's human costs, and discovers how the environment and photography played key roles on the rails.

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

A conversation with the lead designer of the 1985 version of the Oregon Trail video game.

The extremes to which Puerto Rican national Pedro Albizu Campos and his followers fought for independence.

The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

In the 1930s, 16 African-American families from the South rejected the American experiment and looked to Communist Uzbekistan for a chance to build a new world.

Looking for an easy buck, con artists in the early 1900s infamously "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants fresh of the boat.

Historian Isaac Campos traces the origins of the idea that marijuana causes violent madness…and finds the trail leads south, to Mexico.

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.

The legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving their families and resettling in the United States.