Oh dear: The artist behind the Elgin mural that depicts a portion of a famous photo of a 1930 lynching of two black men in Indiana said the piece was intended to get people to ask questions, think about issues and consider their own place...
Historical Memory
Above: Execution following New York City slave uprising, 1741 Too often, we discuss slavery as simply as southern phenomenon. This serves a number of functions, all of which are unfortunate..
It's just so hard to be a dead Confederate today. No one loves you anymore. No one wants to name things after treasonous slaveholders or the northern politicians who facilitated.
I really appreciate this point Bernie Sanders made recently: People are not truly free when they are unable to feed their family,” he said. “People are not truly free when they are unable to retire with dignity. People are not truly free when they are...
What a great project to give the Triangle Fire victims a proper memorial. The memorial would include several long steel panels running along the building’s facade. One horizontal panel would.
December 7, 1941. Asian colonial power attacks U.S. colonial outposts in Hawaii and Philippines. Next 74 years sees no awareness by Americans that racist colonialism of Japan and racist colonialism.
Of course Donald Trump is making up historical stories to sell real estate. Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a...
Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not.
Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I've been meaning to talk about. Let's move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners.
Unveiling ceremony of Confederate monument, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1909 Sometimes people wonder why the Confederate monuments matter? As if getting rid of them will end racism! No one argued that, but they matter a lot because there is a war over public memory of the...
The University of Texas did a good thing by deciding to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from public display on campus and move it into its US history museum. But.
It's good to see Democrats move away from Jefferson/Jackson dinners at the state level. There's no real reason to tie the party to two long dead white slaveowning men who.