Memory

We must see the world as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.

A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed.

Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features.

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform is back on display at West Point's library.

The popular musical poses Alexander Hamilton as a symbol of the value of immigrants brought to America, but over time, his party became increasingly xenophobic.

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

Spengler shared the anti-American prejudice of many of his German contemporaries, and it is safe to assume that he would have disparaged us as rootless.

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.

In the Embers series, historian M.G. Sheftall shares the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s last survivors and reveals why their testimony must endure.

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism.

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from none other than Walt Disney.

Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.

Eighty years of talking peace and preparing for nuclear war.

The attempts by his administration to control the ways Americans engage with our nation’s history threaten to weaken patriotism, not strengthen it.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

Gen. Leslie Groves promoted Oppenheimer as the atomic bomb's inventor to craft a propaganda narrative, obscuring the true creators and moral implications.

The list of nearly 250 includes the famous, the obscure and, in some cases, the intentionally controversial.

And why we should find it.

Challenges, opportunities, stakes.

'Inherit the Wind' changed how people understand, and remember, the legendary Scopes trial.

On memory, erasure, and the return of indigenous presence.

Films about the Iraq War prize “truth-telling,” but don’t offer many insights about the war itself.

History’s academic study is now deeply politicized, with partisan views shaping beliefs and debates over even basic historical facts.

In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed the first LGBTQ+ national monument in the United States at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City.

The announcement comes just four days before the Army’s multimillion dollar parade in Washington.

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.

The volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States have been written since Abraham Lincoln’s time.