State flags are mostly pretty badly designed, but they do express values of the state, or at least they do when they are changed. See how various southern states added the stars and bars to their flag in the early 60s to show that they...
Historical Memory
Kit Carson led the genocide against the Navajo in 1864 and so.....good for whoever did this. The sandstone obelisk honoring controversial 19th century frontiersman and soldier Kit Carson was partially.
Hoo boy, this is a complex one. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A proposal to build one of the country's largest wind farms in Idaho is drawing opposition from Japanese Americans. About.
Republicans are at a war with historical memory. And look, they are right about what is going on. Historians are pushing narratives that fit the modern United States. Dissent, race, gender, sexuality, class--these are things we think are worth studying. Republicans despise all of this....
Some amazing stuff in Texas. Well, not amazing really, since that would imply surprising and there is nothing that can surprise out of Texas. But this is really bad and.
Americans really struggle to deal with the problematic parts of our past. But comapred to the French, with their own weird national myths, Americans do an OK job. I mean,.
This is a good project: But, later this year, following years of concerted effort by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a memorial to the victims and survivors of the fire will be installed on the building’s brick and terra-cotta facade. The monument, designed by...
This proposed bill is indeed a no brainer, but unfortunately the Republican Party prioritizes people with no brains, so we will see. So, on a day set aside to remember.
The Texas Rangers were a racist force of cops who engaged in mass murders of Mexicans that were and still are celebrated by the people of Texas. But there's at.
Fred Hampton, of the Illinois Black Panthers, speaks at a rally at Chicago's Grant Park in September 1969. Editors note: There is damage to this historic print. — Chicago Tribune historical photo This is a horrible time in American history, but it's also one that...
History is a battle between sides wanting to tell different stories. Some of those sides stand for justice. Others stand for repression. At Montpelier, James Madison's home in Virginia, those.
We have our first new National Park Service site under Biden (not including him making Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante whole) and it is a much needed one, making another.