public history
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.
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.
They say that Orange County is home to the Happiest Place on Earth. For most people, that's Disneyland. For a cynical left-wing historian, it is the Nixon Library. When I.
I wanted to point everyone to this important Union of Concerned Scientists report on the impact of climate change on the nation's cultural landscape and historic sites. The UCS asked.
[ERIK SAYS] This podcast discusses Ari Kelman's new book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. It explores how different groups contest the historical meanings of the.
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington, a former abolitionist preacher, led a military expedition against an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. The.
The New York Times' Disunion series continues to be absolutely fantastic, even if it doesn't get the publicity it did when the series started. And I've been reading Kevin Levin's.
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as.