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“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

How culture fueled the infamous police decision.

How race-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes were followed by decades of over-policing at the scale of the neighborhood.

One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, community members still can’t get the federal government to recognize Greenwood’s significance.

The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.

Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.

American policy continues to create problems for Central American refugees.

There are whole hidden worlds pressing into this one.

Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told.

How do we choose what we remember?

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis suggests that none of the city’s current proposals will prevent another George Floyd.

In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.

A group of activists is calling attention to the legacy of slavery encoded in the names of New York City’s streets and neighborhoods.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

A 1918 debate offers a portrait of the challenges facing local officials during a health emergency.

A revised history of the interstate highway system.

Some of the same Lexington townspeople who took up arms to fight for freedom on April 19, 1775, were slave owners. And one of them was enslaved.

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.

The Texan secessionists are at it again.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

Dance marathons were essentially the Netflix dating show of the Great Depression.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

The history of resistance to racial oppression includes armed, violent resistance.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.

A signee of the U.S. Constitution, John Dickinson enslaved as many as 59 men, women and children at one time.