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Author: BY JEFFERY C. MAYS AND ZACHARY SMALL - Publish Date: November 16, 2021 at 01:25AM Heeding requests to move the statue because of Jefferson’s legacy as an enslaver, the city approved a plan to relocate it to the New-York Historical Society.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: October 14, 2021 at 12:03AM Working in the 1970s and ’80s, his scholarship helped to cement African-American studies as an academic discipline.

Author: BY ADEEL HASSAN - Publish Date: October 2, 2021 at 11:39PM In India, rock quarry miners fought landowners who had held their families in bondage for generations.

Author: BY AURELIEN BREEDEN - Publish Date: September 29, 2021 at 11:44PM The magazine caused an outcry last year after it published a fictional narrative depicting the legislator as an enslaved African.

Author: BY ROSS DOUTHAT - Publish Date: July 11, 2021 at 01:30AM Americans should learn the whole truth about our history. But it still makes sense to start with heroism and inspiration.

Author: BY KIM SEVERSON - Publish Date: July 5, 2021 at 02:32AM Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.

Author: BY ROSS DOUTHAT - Publish Date: June 27, 2021 at 02:00AM What progressives want, and what conservatives are fighting.

Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND AIDAN GARDINER - Publish Date: June 20, 2021 at 02:57AM From Brooklyn to Galveston, there were scenes of joy and reflections on the meaning of the holiday. “We have to celebrate that we survived,” one man said.

Author: BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO - Publish Date: February 25, 2021 at 07:01AM Built largely by enslaved people, the building includes just one small object honoring their work.

Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: February 19, 2021 at 06:40AM The recent federal lawsuit against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani is forcing us into a much-needed history lesson.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: February 2, 2021 at 09:28AM The Division of Motor Vehicles said it had received complaints about the specialty plate, which had been issued to members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Author: BY MICHAEL CROWLEY AND JENNIFER SCHUESSLER - Publish Date: January 19, 2021 at 10:28AM The report charges that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false narrative of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery in its history.

Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: December 7, 2020 at 07:39AM Concerns about vaccination are unfortunate, but they have historical roots.

Author: BY BRET STEPHENS - Publish Date: October 10, 2020 at 07:40AM Journalism does better when it writes the first rough draft of history, not the last word on it.

Author: BY MICHAEL CROWLEY - Publish Date: September 18, 2020 at 08:45AM At the National Archives Museum, the president warned against a “radical movement” that has emerged from “decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools.”

Author: BY JACK HEALY - Publish Date: September 8, 2020 at 02:00PM Enslaved people were also driven west along the Trail of Tears. After a historic Supreme Court ruling, their descendants are fighting to be counted as tribal members.

Author: BY JON MEACHAM - Publish Date: August 23, 2020 at 04:00PM Immediately after the Civil War ended, the South began a campaign to deny the true meaning of the conflict.

Author: BY AZI PAYBARAH - Publish Date: August 4, 2020 at 08:23AM The practice was “adopted by some states after the Civil War in an effort to disenfranchise African-American voters,” the court noted.

Author: BY ADOM GETACHEW - Publish Date: July 27, 2020 at 12:00PM This is what real “decolonization” should look like.

Author: BY ALEXIS COE - Publish Date: February 17, 2020 at 07:00AM There continue to be ways to look with fresh eyes at our founding-est founding father.