The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War

The country is divided. We should still fight for it.

A new book documents the legislative turmoil that led to the Civil War.

Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?

How a vital term in U.S. political life lost its significance—and could regain it today

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people

How the ideal of a radically equal republic faded after the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

David Armitage's book tracks changing definitions of civil war, from Ancient Rome to the American Civil War to now.

Charlottesville was just one in a long line of incidents of large-scale, organized white terrorism.