Minnesota's Fort Snelling is one of those places where a lot of things have happened that make it hard to construct some sort of triumphant narrative. It's where Dred Scott.
My birthday is coming up later this month. I think some presents are in order! Politicians like to say they cannot be bought. But this weekend, here amid the rolling.
Our national need for a Civil War museum consisting of battle reproduction scenes with cat figurine soldiers has finally been fulfilled. In September, in the shadow of the historic battlefield.
When I lived in Texas, I kept wondering if I should go to the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville. It was both horrifying and fascinating at the same time. Why.
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 fact that a wealthy white man would buy an antebellum Louisiana sugar plantation and turn it into a no punches pulled museum on slavery, the first museum dedicated wholly.
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.
