It's time for something a bit more light hearted than usual. So here's this great story about how a bunch of teenagers who don't care about some old man named Prince are curating a New Jersey museum exhibit about Prince. At a large gallery space...
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This is a good project: But, later this year, following years of concerted effort by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a memorial to the victims and survivors of the.
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 he remains popular, he could have airports, bridges and schools named for him. But Trump...
This story from Illinois says so much about how hard it is to do public history with integrity. Just months after authoring a critical report that raised further questions about.
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 aren't sites of memorialization or recognition. The U.S. actually does a better job of this...
I appreciated this discussion of the Entrada celebration in Santa Fe, a now long-running tradition in the city reenacting the Spanish reconquest of it in 1692 after the Pueblo Revolt.
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 down the Washington and Jefferson statues too? The overwhelming response to him and this line...
I think one can make a case for maintaining Confederate monuments, but I don't think Zachary Fine really makes it. Writing about the recent New Orleans decision to take down.
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.