The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.

By mistaking a culture's history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of indigenous knowledge, we're keeping up a Columbian, colonial tradition.

One scholar argues that Judy Garland's role in A Star is Born was so pivotal because it involved both gender impersonation and “racial drag."

The American use of torture, then called the "water cure," in the Philippines during the war of 1899-1902 shocked some Americans of the day.

For more than a century, Hollywood has been offering Americans lifestyle advice on how to live better, and the public has been gobbling it up.

Were Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp films also subtle critiques of the social inequities of American capitalism?