Memory

Most Americans are eager to forget 2020. But some are making time capsules to make sure future generations remember it.

While focusing on refuting the Lost Cause narrative, many historians forget to memorialize Black Americans in the post Civil War period.

Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.

How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?

Americans don't need to rely on legends to tell the stories of women in the Revolution.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.

She was one half of a powerhouse academic couple and an influential historian in her own right. But she's still often overlooked.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.

But it can’t stop there.

A troubling TikTok conspiracy theory questions whether Keller was “real.”

The bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

As Presidents' Day approaches, historians look back at the most notable recent uses and misuses of "the Great Emancipator's" words.

Why I’ve made it my mission to teach others about Prince Hall.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

This collection of colorized portraits transforms ex-slave narratives into freedom narratives in order to better remember the individuals who survived slavery.

The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898.

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

We must remember the very real challenges to the preservation of our democracy.

How not to learn about the American past.

The 1776 Commission marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down meaningful conversation about racism.

A new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman questions his reputation as the brutal "prophet of total war."

Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

We must be cautious of the inclination to find a “usable history” that proves those points we want to prove, that reinforces the lessons we want reinforced.

We don't know which images will become emblematic of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, but past movements have shown the dangers of a singular narrative.

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.