Lindsey Halligan, who is in charge of overhauling the museum system, would prefer to focus on the future.

Museum workers say Donald Trump’s demands are “maddening.”

The administration is using the tools of the state to influence—even poison—how America’s racial history will be taught in our public forums and schools.

The attempts by his administration to control the ways Americans engage with our nation’s history threaten to weaken patriotism, not strengthen it.

It’s not “divisive” to teach about division. It’s divisive to bury it.

How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

Autocrats do not merely fade away; they have to be countered and stopped.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

Global collaboration is necessary for success, if not survival, in our hyper-connected world.

Donald Trump made the deranged comment in a meeting with the German chancellor.

Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States

His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.

Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes are.

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, revealed the chilling next front line in Republicans’ anti-DEI crusade.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

Eastern Europeans’ “internal emigration” experiences under authoritarianism offer useful lessons about how to check out without isolating yourself.