Historical Memory
The decision to tear down the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond builds on a decade or more of activists seeking to purge the racist monuments at the core of.
The fight to protect our past, in terms of having archives and preserving places, is a tenuous and hard one. It doesn't get better when the Trump administration decides to.
I'd say this is unbelievable, but of course it is quite too believable. White supremacists gathered around civil rights martyr Emmett Till's memorial today with a Mississippi Flag & a.
What a racial paradise. The cars came one by one, down a gravel road and through a cotton field, to the edge of the Tallahatchie River and the spot where,.
Female threshing crew, Minnesota, late 19th century It is highly unfortunate that in the public mind, history is actually quite gendered. Popular history--Real History for a lot of people--is biographies.
A controversy has arisen over signs the Minnesota Historical Society has placed at Fort Snelling, which is located in an area known as Bdote by the Dakota People in St..
If Minnesota wants to take down its statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the state capitol, I say go for it. If it wants to replace that statue with.
Above: Joseph Lane From a blogging perspective, this is a really good time for me to be on a research trip with limited internet access and blogging falling down the.