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A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.

It has been a target of vandals ever since it was dedicated.

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.

Although its owner died in 1865, many visitors to the Morris-Jumel Mansion still come just to see her.

A somewhat neglected vinyl-sided house is now at the center of a literary legacy battle.

An animation of the historical trends of New York's growth since its founding.

A century ago, a German U-boat fired at five vessels and a Massachusetts beach before slinking back out to sea.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's best work was done in isolation, a long way from Soviet Russia.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

The story behind the iconic flag.

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

How the Key West we know today became a reflection of one man’s campy sense of style.

Once-vibrant African American homesteading communities are falling to ruin.

A new book conjures the complexity of the Bay Area and the perils of its immense, uneven wealth.

From "real" mermaids in Florida to the world's largest ball of twine, pulling off the highway is more fun than you would think.

In 1961, two African-American men decided to go swimming at a whites-only Nashville pool. In response, the city closed all its public pools — for three years.

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy.

I found a couple, and some fascinating history, too.

The story of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district isn’t well known, but it has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance.

J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.

Immigration from Mexico is actually decreasing.

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.

In Nogales, Arizona, the United States and Mexico agreed to build walls separating their countries.

The apology was a long time coming.

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.

A selection of illustrated maps of New York spanning six centuries.

A look into Basque tree carvings in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.