public history
The Equal Justice Initiative has researched a new history of lynching, documenting nearly 4000 lynchings in the South, including attempts to find the precise locations where they took place. The.
The question with what to do with racist monuments is a difficult one. I can certainly understand the desire to change or erase them. If I am a member of.
I wanted to point everyone to this important Union of Concerned Scientists report on the impact of climate change on the nation's cultural landscape and historic sites. The UCS asked.
Minnesota Republicans are up in arms because the Minnesota Historical Society wants to commission a bust of Harry Blackmun. Why are they going crazy? Because Blackmun was one of the.
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington, a former abolitionist preacher, led a military expedition against an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. The.
I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the.
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as.
I was fortunate enough to visit the reopened New York Historical Society just before the holidays. It's pretty impressive. I've visited twice before, once when the old building was partially.