David W. Blight

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

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.