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.
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.
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.
Minnesota Republicans are up in arms because the Minnesota Historical Society wants to commission a bust of Harry Blackmun. Why are they going crazy? Because Blackmun was one of the.
[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.
