Gabriela Soto Laveaga has an essay in the Post on one of my hobbyhorses: why all Americans need to have an understanding of Mexican history. The recent backlash over a new book on the history of The
Good! Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., workers removed the statue
I care very much about historical memory and the portrayal of the past in history museums. They have such great potential for telling real and interesting stories about the past that inform the presen
I’ve been trying to write and overall busy with other things, so I haven’t had time for a grave post in the last couple of days. For those of you though who look to this site for all thing
Before we move too far behind the first federal holiday of Juneteenth, allow me to make two points. One, this is unabashedly a good thing. Two, as I pointed out recently, this is absolutely going to b
Kellie Carter Jackson on the outrage of the Juneteenth holiday being created at the same time as Republicans are seeking to outlaw the teaching of America’s racist history: This spring, I have b
Those of you who are very old on the internets remember that right-wing hack Josh Trevino, former Bush speechwriter and then who ran the Tacitus blog. He was discredited after it turned out he was a p
This Texas Monthly profile of recent goings-on around the Alamo is pretty bonkers, combining a fanatical Alamo memorability collector Phil Collins (yep, that one), scheming awful Texas politicians, ba