Memory

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.

The Virginia delegate may have spoken those words on March 23, 1775, but some historians doubt it.

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

On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago’s Polish Museum of America honored the “Father of American Cavalry,” 280 years after his birth.

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

Using evidence to remind us.

Who decides how history gets written?

A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is remarkable not only for his sacrifices on behalf of the Union, but also for the moral imagination that inspired him.

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.

It may sound counterintuitive, but Ken Burns’ version of U.S. history actually has quite a bit in common with Trump’s version.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

And why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally.

When the National Park Service removed trans people from the webpages of the Stonewall National Monument, it echoed one of the darkest chapters of the queer past.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.

The history of deriving political meaning from Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.

How historians changed their approach, from the 1960s to the present.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

The White House’s decision to delete a DOJ database of Jan. 6 cases puts those who seek to preserve the historical record in opposition to their own government.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

A gathering of Union veterans in 1883 sheds light on the country's vision of the American West—as a space for reconciliation and a prize won by the war.

With Donald Trump back in the White House, the rewriting of the past has already begun.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

It is not attempting to tell a story about Native erasure. It is not trying to tell a story about Native Americans at all. And that tells the real story.

And why so many people remember the tale so differently.

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

Despite Chalamet’s best efforts, "A Complete Unknown" is a cookie-cutter Bob Dylan biopic for a legendary artist who deserves something more interesting.

A fascinating new exhibit focuses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.