William A. Dunning

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.

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

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

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

The importance of an unambiguous report that cannot be weaponized by Trump supporters.

Born enslaved, he was elected to Congress in the wake of the Civil War. But the impact of this momentous step in U.S. race relationships did not last long.

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.