Kansas City Monuments Coalition

James R. Grossman, former executive director of the American Historical Association, talks to UMKC's David Trowbridge about how memory and history shape what it means to be an American.

Many writers and artists have focused on the overwhelming total loss of life during the Civil War. Historian Thavolia Glymph explores the overlooked impact on Black women and children.

Stephen Aron, director of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, discusses how to talk about the forcible removal of Native Americans from their lands in the U.S. and efforts to redress the losses. Aron also explores how returning items from museum collections to Native communities can start the healing...