History News Network

With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Source: NYT

October 2, 2016

Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China

A memorial site, a labor of love and loss that took decades to open, has been covered with propaganda posters and shut down after 11 years.