Historical Memory
The Trump administration's attempt to quite literally whitewash American history at the National Parks is beyond depressing. But it does show what happens in America when the nation decides to.
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were.
For a very long time, I have expressed frustration that Americans obsessively focus on World War II and the Nazis and don't pay enough attention to their own horrible histories..
Of course..... Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the.
This is good news for those of us who care about a truthful discussion of the historical record: At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President.
Joe Biden's appointee to head the National Archives is a woman named Colleen Shogan. The museum at the Archives is pretty popular. So Shogan has decided to save herself in.
As Biden transitions out of the presidency, expect a good part of his later legacy to be signing executive orders creating national monuments, which is something that Clinton and Obama.
I published an essay not long ago in Where Are the Workers? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites about the lack of labor history in National Park Service sites..
