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.
Historical markers not only vary by state but by region. In New England, they basically don't exist. We don't have to bother with such things, we are history (eyeroll, but.
Interesting idea: An African-American museum has proposed melting down a statue of Robert E. Lee that was recently taken down in Charlottesville, and then using the bronze material to create.
This is a great project and I want to highlight it: The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked.
For seemingly forever, the end of Reconstruction has been taught as the "Compromise of 1877, where Democrats agreed to give the presidency to Rutherford Hayes in return for the end.
Truth of the matter is that even for those who do understand that racism is a real problem and has been forever, we really underestimate the ubiquity and daily banality.
The Royal Road is a 2015 film essay from the queer filmmaker Jenni Olson. This is a fascinating mediation on both queerness and memory in California, a place where people.
