Memory

On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

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

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

On folk hero John Henry.

Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.

The absence of Native perspectives in American history books and classrooms has been remarked on for over 50 years. Will it ever change?

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.

In the United States, the Populist tradition has always defined left-wing and egalitarian politics, unfairly maligned by bosses and intellectuals alike.

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

Colonial Williamsburg has acknowledged to the LGBTQ community that people like them “have always existed.”

Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi Gras. Gail thought they were going to kill her.

The Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands—something that continues today in the tourism industry.

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.

Expanding the radical promise of the American Revolution.

Confederate Statues aren't the only reminder of the Civil War - the US Army still has major bases named for Confederate soldiers.

The recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bloody Elaine Massacre sought to correct the historical record and start hard conversations.

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.