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 the decision to keep up the Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston statues makes...
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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.
Given that ETS is a greedy corporation (don't let the non-profit College Board confuse you, it's technically a client of ETS but ETS is who runs the test operation) that.
The University of North Carolina has long had a building named for former KKK leader William Saunders. Public protest has finally moved to renaming the building "Carolina Hall" (which really, could you be more bland?). But the school's Board of Trustees can't go all the...
So I'm at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell.
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655, painted by Howard Pyle, 1917 Glad to see New York City finally acknowledging its long history as a slave market. The.
Brian Beutler with a proposal: This week provides an occasion for the U.S. government to get real about history, as April 9 is the 150th anniversary of the Union’s victory in the Civil War. The generous terms of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S....
Elizabeth Yale has an interesting essay arguing that the real conservative outrage over the AP U.S. History standards is that AP is avoiding the "we" in history, not taking a.
While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a.
In the Oklahoma version of the attack on AP U.S. History standards, the bill (now withdrawn) read: "founding documents of the United States that contributed to the foundation or maintenance of the representative form of limited government, the free-market economic system and American exceptionalism.” In...
The Equal Justice Initiative has researched a new history of lynching, documenting nearly 4000 lynchings in the South, including attempts to find the precise locations where they took place. The.
The question with what to do with racist monuments is a difficult one. I can certainly understand the desire to change or erase them. If I am a member of.