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South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

Ordinances, arrests, and celebrations during the influenza epidemic.

“This is not just history about Black Americans. This is American history. Slavery is American history. And we want people to understand that.”

Beneath the popular folk song, “Swannanoa Tunnel” and the railroad tracks that run through Western North Carolina is a story of blood, greed, and obfuscation.

Peter L'Official on the Mythologies Behind Urban Renewal.

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.

Cornell University's past and current wealth is tied to the dispossession of Indigenous groups from their land.

Chicago has been a skunk haven for centuries.

The United Stated Emigrant Escort Service and settler colonialism during the Civil War.

A brief history on land ownership, valuation and development in the City of Richmond and the maps used to destroy black communities.

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.

They all but succeeded in scouring the blood away into nothingness, but it lingered, detectable underneath the supposedly cleansed earth.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

For so many of the millions of tourists who come to Orlando, this—Disney, Universal Studios, I-Drive, all of it—stands in for America itself.

The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?

In 1929, Mayor Porter was part of a long history of city figures who perpetuated white supremacy as a foundational and systemic ideal.

In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.

A collection of interviews with rescue workers who responded to the disaster.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.

To what extent did the Union general's famous orders actually liberate the enslaved in Texas?

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.