Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

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.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

A new book explores Abraham Lincoln's interactions with African Americans during his presidency.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

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.

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.

If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed nothing.

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

The common denominator? Fear of Black liberation.

“Wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment.”

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

Most Black Tulsans in 1921 were working class. But these days, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.

Cate Doty on the evolution of a society mainstay.

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.