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Who or what is causing these outbreaks? There are two schools of thought.

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?

A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.

“Some people call me Hillbilly, Some people call me Mountain Man; Well, you can call me Appalachia, ’Cause Appalachia is what I am.” —Del McCoury

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

When a trillion locusts ate everything in sight.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.

Aaron Burr spoke of far-flung fortune, and then the Blennerhassetts’ West Virginia Eden went up in flames.

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 

City developers, RAND Corps dropouts, Latino activists—and Lena Horne, taking direct action against racism in Beverley Hills.

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.

Who sets the time? After the first repeal of Daylight Saving Time in 1919, the question only became harder to answer.

An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.

The people Joseph Rodriguez saw through the windshield in the 1970s and 80s.

The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies, but it is barely commemorated.

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?

When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village.

300 men and 3,000 miles of bad road.

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.

Read at your own risk.

Never before have administrations scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

A community in Ohio keeps the memory of Johnny Appleseed alive.

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.