public history
There is a grassroots effort out of Tulsa to turn Black Wall Street, the site of one of the worst race riots in American history, into a national monument. For.
What is the Trump Library going to look like? Former president Donald Trump will have an official portrait in the National Portrait Gallery at some point. And in states where.
So last weekend I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at a union conference and then I spent a couple days traveling through Virginia. That part of the.
Our history is all around us and yet most of us don't know it because there is no way to know it. Especially for much of our problematic history, there.
One thing that is interesting in the United States right now is that unlike ever before in our history, at least nearly everyone left of center is willing to deal.
During Trump's grotesque response to Charlottesville, he noted that if we take down statues of our heroes Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, where does it stop? Do we take.

Historic homes of famous old white people was one of the first ways Americans began remembering their past. But they have tons of problems. Largely, those problems can be summed.
A central piece of the rhetoric about taking the Confederate flag down from state property and official state symbols is that "it belongs in a museum." Actually it doesn't belong.